In 2025, Modern Times Review again joins Porto/Post/Doc. From 20–29 November, Porto hosts 135 films under the theme «The Time of a Journey», with a programme that treats mobility, memory, and class as shared political terrain. Here, we preview films from the International Competition, the new medium-length and short sections, Cinema Falado’s Lusophone dialogues, and spotlights, tracing how the festival’s screenings, talks, and industry strands turn the city into a ten-day school of critical seeing and debate.
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News
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Films
Bye Bye Tiberias
Director: Lina Soualem
Four generations of Palestinian women take us on a journey through family, war, memory and identity.
Fiume o Morte!
Director: Igor Bezinović
A crowd-sourced, carnivalesque reconstruction of Rijeka 1919–20, Rijeka or Death! dismantles D’Annunzio’s cult and exposes the roots and afterlives of fascism.
Flophouse America
Director: Monica Strømdahl
Inside one motel room an intimate portrait of American poverty unfolds.
Foragers
Director: Jumana Manna
The petty politics of Palestinian persecution as seen through the lens of age-old traditions of foraging for medicinal herbs.
Little Syria
Director: Reem Karssli, Madalina Rosca
Filmed over 20 years across several countries, a group of Syrian refugees in Berlin fight for justice for Assad-regime victims.
Midnight Traveler
Director: Hassan Fazili
The Fazili family shoots their perilous journey from Afghanistan through the Balkan migration route to an uncertain future on three mobile phones.
Militantropos
Director: Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorleva, Simon Moskovyi
From mass graves to choral singing, images traverse Ukraine’s landscapes, questioning identity while war normalises behaviours unimaginable.
Nova ‘78
Director: Rodrigo Areias, Aaron Brookner
An electrified archive of 1978’s Nova Convention with Burroughs, Ginsberg, Cage, Smith colliding in a space where theory met punk poetry on 16mm.
Only On Earth
Director: Robin Petré
Robin Petré’s cinematically sprawling Only on Earth journeys deep into southern Galicia as wildfires rage on.
Yanuni
Director: Richard Ladkani
The intimate cost of fighting for the Amazon.