30 May - 2 June, 2024

The cinema that seeks in bread it's essence, a milenar experience, a tradition and a revolution that always surprise us.
Basic of world food, bread has in Albergaria-a-VeIha its annual celebration that the documentary film now expands in a visibility without geographical boundaries.

Free submission.
Submission deadline: 28 April 2024

The following cash prizes will be awarded:
- 1st Place Category 1 - 1000 €;
- 1st Place Category 2 - 2000 €.

1 - Organization
Municipality of Albergaria-a-Velha.

2 - Films in competition
Feature and short DOCUMENTARIES, not available on web, which will incorporate one of the following categories:
Category 1 - less than 30 minutes;
Category 2 - longer than 30 minutes.

3 - Description
The works must be given until the April 28th 2024, through the registration form to be sent by email or by post.
For the selection of the works, participants must provide a private link viewing on the web.

4 - Selection
The organization informs the participants of the works selected in the competition. The selection results will also be announced on the Festival website.

5 - Awards
The following cash prizes will be awarded:
- 1st Place Category 1 - 1000 €;
- 1st Place Category 2 - 2000 €.

6 - Jury
The jury will be composed of personalities to the organization's invitation.

7 - Secreening the selected films
The selected films will be shown in one of the following formats:
- HD (1080p), preferably with H264 compression.

The films must reach the organization via the web platform data transfer (www.wetransfer.com or other similar).

The submission of films is the responsibility of producers / authors to automatically assign all their rights to display this Festival and in the promotion of it in specifically scheduled sessions for this purpose.

Producers / authors authorize, equally automatically, screening up to 10% of the film in all media to publicize the Festival or the media.

8 - Transport of Works
Shipping of the films will be the responsibility of the competitors.
The selection DVD will not be returned.

9 - Other
The entry of a film implies the automatic acceptance of all items of this Regulation. Any further questions or issues that may arise will be clarified or resolved by the organization.

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  • Stanka Gjuric

    I am absolutely thrilled that my film ‘Bread’ has entered the official selection! If only I could attend this wonderful, commendable event and Festival! I hope to have a chance to do that one day. Thank you so much!

    June 2022
  • khaled farjzadeh

    Hello, thank you for your good festival. I hope this festival will be more glorious in the coming years

    June 2022
  • Götz Reinicke

    Our Film had been selected and screened and honored "Prémio Longa Metragem“. But we did not get any Information on that or any kind of contact.

    Messages and E-Mails are not answered by any known contact address. So if you reed this. get in contact with us ASAP.

    We just read about it in the news.

    July 2019
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    Response from festival:

    The winners were contacted and the monetary awards were given, in all editions of the festival. Thanks.

  • Masoud Ghodsieh

    DO PÃO festival is one of the best festivals in the film And in the field of informing and holding the festival are very accurate. The presence of my film in this festival is very good for me

    June 2019
  • Excellent event, proud to be part of this

    June 2019