Porto7 Selects Memory And Where's Beauty?

The Festival Porto7 has selected the short films Memory, directed by Víctor Suñer, and Where's Beauty (¿Dónde quedó la belleza?), directed by Enrique Cerrejón, for competing at its fifth edition, that is opening tomorrow, June 13th, in Oporto (Portugal).

Memory by Víctor Suñer and Where's Beauty (¿Dónde quedó la belleza?) by Enrique Cerrejón are two of the fifty-four short films that are going to compete at the Porto 7 - 5º Festival Internacional de Curtas-metragens do Porto (Oporto International Short Film Festival, Oporto, Portugal).

This film festival is divided in four competitive categories: the Secção Competitiva Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Ficção (International Fiction Short Film Competition) which is presenting 18 fiction shorts, the Secção Competitiva Curtas-Metragens de Animação (Animation Short Film Competition) with 18 animation shorts in competition, the Secção Competitiva de Curtas-Metragens de Documentário (Documentary Short Film Competition) which is showing 11 documentaries, and the Secção Competitiva Nacional (National Short Film Competition) with 7 Portuguese fiction short films.

Memory by Víctor Suñer is actually competing in the Secção Competitiva Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Ficção. In this category, the candidates for awards are: Covariance by Dawn Westlake (USA), A wonderful Day – Yom Nifla by Yossi Meiri & Ariel Weisbrod (Israel), 108.1 FM Radio by Angelo & Giuseppe Capasso (Italy), Life Vest Under Your Seat by María Giráldez & Miguel Provencio (Spain), Posturas by Álvaro Oliva (Spain), Felix by Anselm Belser (Germany), Love on the Airwaves by Steven Hindes (Australia), Ensayo de actores by Jesús Monroy (Spain), Tom by Clémence Marcadier (France), L’umanità scalza by Americo Melchionda (Italy), The Tigers, They’re all dead by Reema Sengupta (India), Delete by Kazem Mollaie (Iran), A galinha que burlou o sistema by Quico Meirelles (Brazil), La mirada Perdida by Damián Dionisio (Argentina), The Attic by Minos Nikolakakis (Greece), Memory by Víctor Suñer (Spain), Reflejos by Juan López Salvatierra (Spain), and Asternauts by Marta Masferrer (Germany / USA).

Memory is going to be screened on June 14th at 21:30 at the Cinema Passos Manuel of Oporto.

For its part, Where's Beauty? by Enrique Cerrejón has been selected for competing in the Secção Competitiva Curtas-Metragens de Animação. In this category the 18 selected short films are: Ai Guant Tu Bilif by Daniel Valencia Ibáñez (Spain), Smile by Zanoletty (Spain), The Naughty List by Ben Mitchell (England / Canada), Ground Running by Ben Mitchell (England / Canada), Dress to Impress by Falk Schuster (Germany), Noise by Olga Poliektova & Tatiana Poliektova (Russia), Dirty Friday by Adrián Miguel Delgado & Tenesor Cruz Niesvaara (Spain), Naked Love Ea’s garden by Sara Koppel (Denmark), Andersartig by Dennis Stein-Schomburg (Germany), Maze by Marianna Mankowska (Poland), Blanche Fraise by Frédérick Tremblay (Canada), Grub by Annalise Wimmer (Scotland / Norway), Otto Wichterle by Zuzana Bahulova (Czech Republic), Vidal e a história de Portugal by Nuno Matos (Portugal), Lágrimas de um palhaço by Claudio Sa (Portugal), Crumpling by Joaquim Fontes (Portugal), Where's Beauty? by Enrique Cerrejón (Spain), and Coma by Rodrigo Ortiz (England / Chile).

The screening of Where's Beauty?, the short film by Enrique Cerrejón, is scheduled on June 16th at 21:30 also at the Cinema Passos Manuel of Oporto.

The Porto7 is opening tomorrow, June 13th, and it will be closed on June 17th.