Portales

Portals


Direction: Elena Duque
Screenplay: Elena Duque
Production company: Rocío Mesa
Producer: Rocío Mesa
Cinematography: Elena Duque
Edition: Marcos Flórez
Sound: Jesús Guisado, Inés Parish
Animation: Elena Duque


Runtime: 15:41
Format: 16mm
Dialogues: Without dialogues
Subtitles: No subtitles
Country: Spain
Year: 2025


Portales follows the course of the Guadalete River in Cádiz, Spain, from the mountains to the sea: a catalog of landscapes that hide other landscapes, a collection of interdimensional portals (and postcards) that fuses real action and animation creating an impossible fauna and flora, inventing a new history and geography for a humble waterway.


Festivals

BERLINALE - Berlin International Film Festival | Germany, Feb 2025
Punto de Vista - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Navarra | Spain, Feb 2025
FICUNAM - Festival Internacional de Cine de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Mexico, May 2025
Festival de Málaga | Spain, Mar 2025 Jury's Special Mention
BAFICI - Buenos Aires Festival Internacional Cine Independiente | Argentina, Apr 2025
D'A Film Festival Barcelona | Spain, Mar 2025
GO SHORT - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen | Netherlands, Apr 2025
HKIFF - Hong Kong International Film Festival | Hong Kong, Apr 2025
FILMADRID Festival Internacional de Cine | Spain, Jun 2025
Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival | Portugal, Jul 2025
Reykjavík International Film Festival | Iceland, Sep 2025
BIEFF - International Experimental Film Festival Bucharest | Romania, Sep 2025
CURTOCIRCUITO - Festival Internacional de Cine | Spain, Jul 2025 Youth Jury Award, Cosmos Award for Best Innovative Film
Gent Film Festival | Belgium, Oct 2025
ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid | Spain, Nov 2025
Festival Silhouette - Paris | France, Aug 2025
EXiS - Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul | Korea South, Jul 2025
Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine | Peru, Oct 2025 Best International Short Film
Mientras tanto CINE | Uruguay, Apr 2025
MIDBO Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá | Colombia, Oct 2025
Seoul International Alternative Film Festival - NeMAF | Korea South, Aug 2025
ALCANCES - Festival de Cine Documental | Spain, Sep 2025
OBSKURA Festival de Cinéma Argentique Contemporain | France, Jul 2025
Cámara Lúcida - Encuentro Internacional de Cine | Ecuador, Sep 2025
Festival Internacional de Jóvenes Realizadores de Granada | Spain, Oct 2025 Aguaespejo Award
CLAM - Festival Internacional de Cinema Social de Catalunya | Spain, Oct 2025