The Portuguese Embassy in Canada, the Camões Institute, the Queen's University and the Arte Institute are pleased to present the Premiere of the VI Edition of the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival

This year, the Festival brings us 7 shorts and 2 invited shorts by Portugal’s most promising filmmakers. The Festival is now in its six year of existence, and since last May took place in New York, Lisbon, Cascais,London, Sydney, Bangkok, Sao Paulo, Mozambique, South Africa, Montreal and Rio de Janeiro.The short films were selected and submitted to a distinguished jury composed of figures of American, Portuguese and Brazilian film experts. Arte Institute established the N.Y. Portuguese Short Film Festival – the first of its kind in the U.S. – to expose a broader, international audience to Portuguese culture and its prolific but under-recognized cinematic scene.

Program:
First Set
That's how it was by Patrícia Rodrigues | Joana Nogueira
My River by Ricardo Teixeira
Law of Gravity by Tiago Rosa-Rosso
Feral (Short Film Invited) by Daniel Sousa

Second Set
Isa by Patricia Vidal Delgado
The Robbery by João Tempera
I'd Rather Not Say by Pedro Augusto Almeida
#Lingo by Vicente Nirō
The Carnations and the Rock (Short Film Invited) by Luísa Sequeira

For more information on the N.Y. Portuguese Film Festival, including film synopses and interviews with directors, visit www.nypsff.arteinstitute.org/ .

Refreshments will be served before the event and during the break