38th edition
17-25 january 2026

A Girl in the Mirror

A Rapariga no Espelho

Pedro Fortes

Image A Girl in the Mirror
Portugal
2003 Fiction 23 min
Pedro Fortes and A girl In the mirror invites you to travel to a peculiar place, somewhat mysterious, a sophisticated mirrored box inside a TV studio. A place where the putting on of a red lipstick gives life and the broadcast camera takes it away, whilst girls lost in endoscopic novels are thrown into darkness where they vanish into the emptiness of haute couture dresses.
With : Nuria Madruga, Paulo Pires, Andreia Bento
Screenplay : Pedro Fortes, Paulo Rebelo
Image : Miguel Sales Lopes
Sound : Max
Music : Pedro Fortes
Production : O som e a Furia, Joao Figueiras, Sandro Aguilar
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Pedro Fortes was born in Faro, in the south of Portugal, on 1972. From 1990 to 1994, he studied Architecture and Fine Arts at the FAUTL and FBAUL faculty, in Lisbon. In 1997 he concluded his cinema studies at the National Cinema and Theatre School in Lisbon. A Rapariga no Espelho is his first short film after school.