This year's festival theme is [ Colossal Youth ] How is youth portrayed in cinema? Through what images and sounds can we define the energy of the new generations, their dreams and fears? How do they challenge traditions and invent new ways of life? It is imperative to listen carefully to young people, observe their freedom and return to the mysteries they know and which adults seem, at times, to have forgotten. In other words, travel back in time and go back to the moments that shaped everything that came after. Perceiving youth is, after all, perceiving who we are and what we can be. The selection of films for this edition was made based on the adequacy of the artistic work and the chosen theme, FRAMES COLOSSAL YOUTH, and, as always, based on the quality of cinematographic production in Portugal. COLOSSAL YOUTH, powerful youth.