25 MAY | 31 MAY | Rectory of U.Porto – Praça Gomes Teixeira

FEST Warm Up is back with the promise to heat up Porto

FEST - New Directors | New Films Festival is close to putting out the candles for its 15th birthday.

With many surprises and announcements for the next few weeks, we start by revealing the program for FEST - Warm Up, that is back once more to heat up Porto’s downtown.

Warm Up Porto will take part in the Rectory of the University of Porto, on two different weekends. The program begins on the 25th of May, at 4 pm, with a session that FEST dedicates to children. Following that, at 9:30 pm, some short films that have already been a part if FEST’s 15 years of story, will be screened. The next Friday, 31st of May, the party continues. At 6 pm the Rectory building will fill up, ready to receive a Masterclass about “The importance of Film Festivals in the cinematic industry”, presented by FEST’s Director of Programming, Fernando Vasquez with the aim to alert young filmmakers for the urgency of their presence in Film Festivals all around the world. At 9:30 pm, “A Tribo” (2017), a feature film by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, will be showcased in the Rectory, followed by a debate led by Prof. Alice Ribeiro (FLUP).

PROGRAM

FEST Warm-up U Porto

25th of May | 16:00 – FEST for children

25th of May | 21:30 - Screening of a selection of shirt-films

31st of May | 18:00 – Masterclass at Universidade do Porto’s Reitoria

31st of May | 21:30 – Screening of the feature film “A Tribo” a feature film by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, and Debate led by Prof. Alice Ribeiro (FLUP).