BEAST International Film Festival runs in Porto from 25 to 29, September.

BEAST IFF is a celebration of Central and Eastern European cinema. Its aim is to present the full spectrum of film - fiction, documentary, animated and experimental - from these countries, accompanied by unique meetings with filmmakers.

The curator of one of the sections is our Film Art Organization Department lecturer, Monika Talarczyk, PhD.

The competitions feature films produced at the Lodz Film School, and in other sections there are also films by our students and graduates.

* Official Competition — East Doc *

A HANDFUL OF DUST, dir. Izabela Zubrycka

* Official Competition — Anima East *

COMPOSITION OF EXISTING EXPERIENCES , dir. Joanna Szlembarska

* Official Competition — Experimental East * GRANDMAMAUNTSISTERCAT, dir. Zuza Banasińska (project developed in the Visual Narrative Laboratory)

* Visegrad Film Hub: Polish Young Talents — Short Waves Film Festival *
Visegrad Film Hub is a section organized with the financial support of the Visegrad Fund, and its goal is to present films from the following countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The Polish partner is the Short Waves Festival in Poznań.

BE SOMEBODY, dir. Michał Toczek
SUCH MIRACLES DO HAPPEN, dir. Barbara Rupik
A BEAUTIFUL WILDFLOWER MEADOW, dir. Emi Buchwald (prod. Munk Studio; directing graduate)
BASIA: THREE SHORT STORIES dir. Mateusz Pietrak (prod. Wajda Studio; directing student)

* Visegrad Film Hub: Cine-geography: Blackness and Race in the Polish People's Republic*

Curators: Magda Lipska and Monika Talarczyk (Film Art Organization Dept. lecturer)

ADOPTION, dir. Mustapha Derkaoui
ANTHROPOLOGY, dir. Djamel Benkhaled
LESSON 41, dir. Abdellah Drissi
HOPE, dir. Faycal Hassairi
PROLOGUE, dir. Eduardo Coronado Quiroga
ZOFIA AND LUDMIŁA, dir. Mohammed Ben Said

* Opening Films: Focus Estonia *

SAUNA DAY, dir. Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash (directing graduate)

Complete festival programme: beastfilm.pt/schedule