From Cape Verdean Lisbon to the border villages along the frontier between northern Portugal and Galicia, from Rio’s Carnival to Maputo’s resilient creativity, by way of the Douro, student artistic practices, and narratives that summon past and memory in intimate, fabular, or spectral modes. The films in the Cinema Falado Competition sketch a living mosaic of the Portuguese language and the multiple realities it traverses, building bridges across cultures, generations, and geographies.