The 2025 Porto/Post/Doc Festival has announced its awards, led by Nastia Korkia’s Short Summer, which won the Vicente Pinto Abreu Grand Prix for best film in the International Competition. The international jury said the decision was unanimous, and pointed to the film’s poetry and symbolism in crafting a childhood story set in a geography marked by war.

Danae Elon’s Rule of Stone received the Human Rights In Motion Award, with the jury highlighting its audacious look at architecture, ideology, and the political forces shaping an urban landscape.

Other prizes went to Nuno Boaventura Miranda’s The Last Harvest, winner of the Spautores – Cinema Falado Award, recognised for its editing, photography, and sound while tracing histories of #colonisation and its consequences. Franziska von Stenglin’s Just Sea took the International Medium-Length & Short Film Competition Award, described as a poetic reflection on nature and the decline of marine #biodiversity through the life of Salvo, a fisherman. The public chose Catarina Alves Costa’s Orlando Pantera for the Transmission Audience Award.

In the New Cinema Competition, Catarina Couto Gonçalves’ Num Sopro won the Cinema Novo Canal180 Award, cited for its breathing-driven soundscape and black-and-white cinematography following a young skater’s struggle and resilience; she also received the MAD MAD Award. The jury issued an Honourable Mention to Afonso Gil Mendes Branco’s Closer to Animal for its lo-fi, DIY aesthetic and a finale of expressive, emotional dance.

The student-run Youth Jury also awarded Short Summer. Finally, the Working Class Heroes Award (Filmaporto – film commission and Fundación «la Caixa»/CaixaForum+) went to Elena López Riera’s project Vigília, noted for intersecting working-class realities with a fresh blend of fiction and documentary grounded in Porto’s history.