CINANIMA International Animated Film Festival
Festival Internacional de Cinema de Animação CINANIMA
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Espinho hosted the 49th edition from 7 to 16 November 2025, with memory providing the thread between animation’s past and its possible futures. Tributes marked the centenaries of festival co-founder António Gaio and animation advocate Vasco Granja, while the new All Aboard competition opened a space for encounters between styles and generations. Cash prizes also returned after a hiatus.
The international short-film jury — Agnė Adomėnė, Kaspar Jancis, Leonel Vieira, Lucija Mrzljak and Steve Woods — awarded the Grand Prix to Marta Reis Andrade’s Dog Alone. Heinrich Sabl’s Memory Hotel took the feature-film prize, Martin Bonnin’s Between the Gaps won the Gaston Roch student award, and Natalia León’s As if the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up became the first All Aboard winner. Alice Eça Guimarães’s Because Today Is Saturday won both the screenplay and audience awards.
No Video Available Feno Dias and 2 co-directors
Between HairsThree women from different generations discuss their relationship with their body hair,…
Trailer Matthew Hendry, Tolli Myers
BurnoutWork too hard, and stress might crawl out of your head and destroy your room. Pixilation…
No Video Available Lia Gomes and 2 co-directors
Ephemeral GodsInsects move secretly, like tiny gods performing rituals unseen by human eyes. Deuses…
No Video Available Coletivo turma 7º2 da Escola Secundária Sá de Miranda and 2 co-directors
Equality Makes the DifferenceA triangle tries to fit into a square world until a circle arrives and sets itself apart…
No Video Available 4th grade students from primary schools in the municipality of Montemor
Fragmented Finger PrintsThis film is the result of work developed with children, around the mass displacement of…
No Video Available Farnoosh Abedi and 2 co-directors
Holy HeavênessThe unbearable lightness of the death of loved ones… There are wounds in life that eat…
No Video Available Bárbara Gonçalves Nogueira, Miguel Martins Matias
InterludeAt the conservatory, two teenagers are destined to play together, which blossoms into a…
Trailer Associação de Ludotecas do Porto/Anilupa
Joana's ChallengeJoana enters a world where nothing is as it seems. In a seemingly dead-end game, the…
Trailer Marie-Hélène Van Thuyne
Judy1964Judy is fascinated by the new toy gun commercial, but when
she stumbles upon her…
Trailer Gervasio Canda and 2 co-directors
Luz DiablaMartin, a flamboyant urban raver, is involved in a strange car accident on his way to a…
No Video Available Coletivo turma 5ºA da Escola Básica, 2 e 3 de Palmeira
Mission 1313A video wandering “casually” on social media leads to a series of actions that bring very…
No Video Available Vitor Sousa and 2 co-directors
Night ShiftA young adult lives a monotonous life with their 24/7 job. In the course of one night…
No Video Available Year 3º Escola Artística do Conservatório de Música do Porto
Our Art Peering into InfinityArt is an act of freedom. In this movie, the children express their ideas, their views on…
No Video Available Catarina Santos and 3 co-directors
OutgrowingTwo siblings fleeing an abusive home, find themselves alone in search of a better life.
