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Nine portuguese productions are competing for the 2025 Méliès d’argent Award
Between plenty of animation and some splatter, we move from sci-fi to a more self-reflective style, with time for azorexploitation, combining new voices with veteran (and even award-winning) names in the MOTELX universe. In a bid for the Méliès d'argent Award
for Best European Short Film, a Portuguese representation brimming with talent.
for Best European Short Film, a Portuguese representation brimming with talent.
The Portuguese entry for the Méliès d'argent Award for Best European Short Film once again establishes itself as an exciting showcase of budding talent, combining new voices with veteran names in the MOTELX universe.
Several notable returns are: Fernando Alle, whose "Pimple" revisits the world of school bullying with a splattering style, much like the director of "Mutant Blast"; Francisco Lacerda, the undisputed king of Azorexploitation, returns with "Yazza"; Luís Costa, so far the only Portuguese director to win the Méliès d'Argent Award at MOTELX for "O Meu Reino" returns with "Light Was a Break"; and Bruno Caetano, producer of the Oscar-nominated short "The Ice Merchants" presents his latest animation, "Sequential".
Also in the field of animation, two contrasting approaches stand out, both in style and theme: "Amarelo Banana", by Alexandre Sousa and "Dog Alone", by Marta Reis Andrade. More "outside the box", we have the self-reflective "BeNice", by Tiago "Ramon" Santos — who returns after surprising in the previous edition with "Camaleão"— and two forays into science fiction, confirming an appetite for this genre in Portugal: "Antenna", by Duarte Pedroso de Lima, and "Gardunha", by Ana Vilela da Costa.
Several notable returns are: Fernando Alle, whose "Pimple" revisits the world of school bullying with a splattering style, much like the director of "Mutant Blast"; Francisco Lacerda, the undisputed king of Azorexploitation, returns with "Yazza"; Luís Costa, so far the only Portuguese director to win the Méliès d'Argent Award at MOTELX for "O Meu Reino" returns with "Light Was a Break"; and Bruno Caetano, producer of the Oscar-nominated short "The Ice Merchants" presents his latest animation, "Sequential".
Also in the field of animation, two contrasting approaches stand out, both in style and theme: "Amarelo Banana", by Alexandre Sousa and "Dog Alone", by Marta Reis Andrade. More "outside the box", we have the self-reflective "BeNice", by Tiago "Ramon" Santos — who returns after surprising in the previous edition with "Camaleão"— and two forays into science fiction, confirming an appetite for this genre in Portugal: "Antenna", by Duarte Pedroso de Lima, and "Gardunha", by Ana Vilela da Costa.