LusOFest Event Archive

LusOFest screens short films by filmmakers from the Rhine-Main region alongside international productions from the Portuguese-speaking world. All submitted short films had to be less than 20 minutes long. All films in Portuguese… Read more: LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTIVISM (Short films: Documentary, Experimental)

The medium-length film is a unique category. The runtime for this format is not strictly defined. For us, it includes films between 20 and 60 minutes long, thus complementing our short films which… Read more: MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE (Medium-length, fiction)

Izidine, a recently promoted police officer, is called to a nursing home in an old colonial fort to investigate a crime: Vasto Excelêncio, the home’s director, has been murdered. Izidine encounters a surprise… Read more: THE ANCHORAGE OF TIME

For over 20 years, Lindo hunted sea turtles on the island of Príncipe. After an encounter with an unexpectedly tame turtle, he decided to change his life and protect the animal from other… Read more: LINDO (Portugal 2023)

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, 13-year-old Tielle grows up with dreams inspired by her older sister’s escape. As she matures, the illusions she clings to begin to crumble, revealing a world of deep-rooted… Read more: MANAS (Brazil 2024)

This year’s motto is ‘Now!’. As mentioned above, we have taken this as a call to action and an opportunity to present you with an even wider selection of our competition entries. We are using it programmatically to give you a little preview of LusOFest, which will be presenting short and feature films from the Portuguese-speaking world in Offenbach from 20 to 25 January 2026.

There is magic in every beginning. The first LusOFest took place in Offenbach am Main from 23 to 26 January 2025. Organised by a small team, with virtually no budget, funding or sponsors… Read more: LusOFest 2025 Recap

Viva Portugal examines the period of transition to democracy in Portugal after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 and lets those involved have their say. The documentary film, made by Frankfurt director Malte Rauch… Read more: 26 JAN 2025 – VIVA PORTUGAL

Lots and lots of short 57Nordern lights. At the first LusOFest, we are showing short films by filmmakers from the Rhine-Main region, together with international productions from the Portuguese-speaking world. The submitted short… Read more: 25 JAN 2025 – LONG NIGHT OF SHORTS

April 25th in shorts This short film programme, which we showed on Friday, 23 August 2024, in cooperation with the Filmklubb Offenbach, took an in-depth look at the cinematographic representation of the Carnation… Read more: 23.08.2024 LusOFest Summer Night