A meeting point between cinema, visual arts, and music, this section continues to establish itself as a privileged space for formal experimentation and creative dialogue between filmmakers and musicians.

Over the years, the music video has evolved into a medium of remarkable creative freedom, where narrative, performance, animation, and visual experimentation coexist beyond the constraints of traditional cinematic formats. This year's competition reflects that diversity, bringing together filmmakers, visual artists, and directors working across contemporary moving-image practices.

The selection includes new works created for artists such as A garota não, PAUS, Mirror People, Clarisse e os Desviados, Sereias, Hetta, Caustic, Babe!, CIGANINHO 404, fauxquaker, Unsafe Space Garden, Maria Faust, and Sula Bassana, highlighting the richness and diversity of Portugal's independent music scene.

Among the featured directors are established figures from cinema and audiovisual production, including Edgar Pêra, who directs Lost in Space by Sula Bassana, alongside a new generation of filmmakers and visual artists who continue to explore the music video as a fertile space for aesthetic experimentation.

Selected Music Videos – Music Videos Competition 2026

• A garota não + João Mota (Et toi Michel) – Tigre III | Directed by Amigos da Onça | Portugal | 4'

• Caustic, Babe! – Should I Dream | Directed by Lorena Sequeyro | Portugal | 3'

• CIGANINHO 404 – REALIDADE | Directed by Machine Filmes | Portugal | 3'

• Clarisse e os Desviados – Plástico | Directed by Pedro Fonseca | Portugal | 4'

• fauxquaker – Doorcase Mummy | Directed by Jorge Miranda Lucas | Portugal | 3'

• Hetta – Plainclothes Man | Directed by João Portalegre | Portugal | 3'

• Maria Faust – March nr. 6.2 | Directed by António Tainha | Estonia | 3'

• Mirror People – Any Color U Like | Directed by Rui Maia | Portugal | 4'

• PAUS – Ficamos por Aqui | Directed by André Ivo | Portugal | 3'

• Sereias – Extrema-Direita Fascista | Directed by Jorge Quintela | Portugal | 4'

• Sula Bassana – Lost in Space | Directed by Edgar Pêra | Portugal | 8'

• Unsafe Space Garden – Mais Uma Voltinha | Directed by Cristiana Figueiredo & Lucas Moreira de Silva | Portugal | 5'