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LusOFest is presenting short films about growth at this year’s Sommerwerft. The growing together of communities, the outgrowing of constraints and the growth of individuals beyond themselves. Most of the films come from the Portuguese-speaking Global South and are a selection handpicked for the Sommerwerft from the LusOFest 2025 shortlist. The short films will be Read more...

At the finale of the first LusOFest Short Film Award, we will be showing short films by filmmakers from the Rhine-Main region together with international short film productions from the Portuguese-speaking world. The short films submitted had to be less than 20 minutes long and have a connection to the Rhine-Main region or a Portuguese-speaking Read more...

After our opening event, the Short Film Summer Night in August 2024, we will be showing the second part of the curated short film programme at the festival, with five more films that approach the Carnation Revolution on 25 April 1974 in Portugal and the time of the dictatorship from different perspectives. We will show Read more...

At the first LusOFest, we will be showing short films by filmmakers from the Rhine-Main region, together with international productions from the Portuguese-speaking world. The short films submitted had to be under 20 minutes long (we did, however, also tolerate some small exceeding runtimes in this particular programme. At 57Nord, we will be showing a Read more...

❗️SOLD OUT – THERE WILL BE NO BOX OFFICE ❗️ For many, Cesária Évora was a superstar. At home in the African island state of Cape Verde, however, the singer was much more: she was a symbol of pride, and a role model that provided both help and hope. The world-famous singer Cesária Évora is Read more...

On the 11th of November 1975, 14 years after the start of the armed conflict, Angola declares its independence from Portuguese colonial rule. Only after the military coup of 25 April 1974 (Carnation Revolution) did Portugal recognise the colonies’ right to self-determination. Independência is about the memory of colonial rule in Angola and, according to Read more...