MOTELX partners with GUIÕES Festival to create a new prize exclusively for Portuguese screenplays for feature films not yet produced.

MOTELX 2022 opens with “Bodies Bodies Bodies”, putting Gen Z in danger, and world premieres “The Open Body” with Victoria Guerra and José Fidalgo.

Dario Argento, the legendary master of Italian horror, is back at MOTELX to present his new film “Dark Glasses” for its national premiere.

Film premieres by Dario Argento, Michel Hazanavicius and Frederico Serra; MOTELX’s Lost Room in an brand new book about Portuguese horror; a programme dedicated to producer Paulo Branco, and “Os Crimes de Diogo Alves” with music by Bernardo Sassetti are some of the highlights of the 16th edition of the Festival.

Make a horror microSHORT of up to 2 minutes with your mobile phone, webcam or tablet and send it to films@motelx.org.

The winning short film will be screened at the Closing Ceremony of MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival's 16th edition!

Submit your films until 10 August, with no fear.