The 13th edition of Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival will take place from 19 to 28 November 2026, in the city of Porto. Over ten days, the festival will once again assert itself as a meeting point for filmmakers, audiences, programmers, critics, students and professionals from the fields of cinema and media, presenting works that expand the boundaries of cinema of the real and explore its relationships with fiction, essay, music, contemporary culture and the major political, social and human questions of our time.
Thematic Programme: “In The Land Of Others”
At the centre of the 2026 programme is “In The Land Of Others”, the third and final chapter of the thematic triptych launched in 2024. After reflecting on the movement of peoples and on the journey as an existential, political and historical experience, the festival now proposes an approach to the ideas of belonging, displacement and identity in another territory.
The programme departs from the experience of living in, crossing or imagining the country of the other: a space of encounter, tension, memory and confrontation, where histories of migration, exile, colonisation, diaspora, hospitality, exclusion and personal reconstruction intersect. Across different geographies, temporalities and cinematic forms, the films presented question how one builds a home away from home, how one inhabits a language, a culture or a memory that does not always belong to us, and how cinema can make visible the experiences of those who live between places, borders and unstable forms of belonging.
Competitions and Special Programmes
The festival maintains its competitive sections: the International Competition, dedicated to feature-length films that challenge the boundaries between documentary, fiction, essay and hybrid forms; the International Medium-Length and Short Film Competition, focused on short and medium-length works with a strong formal and authorial identity; Cinema Falado, dedicated to Portuguese-language production and Lusophone cultures; Cinema Novo, which reveals new Portuguese authors; Transmission, focused on the intersections between cinema, music, sound and culture; the Human Rights in Motion Prize, dedicated to films that address issues of human rights, social justice and political transformation; and the Youth Jury Prize, awarded by higher education students.
The programme also includes special screenings, retrospectives and curated focus programmes, the educational programme School Trip and the Docs4Teens screenings, designed for young audiences. The Porto Planetarium once again hosts the Immersive Dome Cinema, a space dedicated to immersive audiovisual experiences in fulldome format.
Porto/Post/Doc once again invites audiences to reflect on and collectively celebrate cinema as a territory of thought, discovery, displacement and encounter.
