38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Amor, Avenidas Novas

Duarte Coimbra

Image Amor, Avenidas Novas
Portugal
2018 Fiction 20 min
Lisbon, 2017. Manel is twenty years old, lives on Avenida Almirante Reis and idealizes love inspired by the relationship of his parents. Out of compassion, he hands over his double mattress to Nicolau and his girlfriend, who returned to Lisbon. Manel is alone with the mattress that he exchanged with his friends and on his way back home when he invades a film set, with a team entirely composed of girls. One of them, Rita, a beautiful production intern helps with the mattress.
With : Manuel Lourenço, Beatriz Luís, Marcelo Tavares, Carolina Caramujo, Nena Coimbra
Screenplay : Duarte Coimbra, Luís Miranda et Pedro Ramalhete
Image : Miguel Barbosa
Sound : Vera Lopes
Editing : Bruno de Freitas Leal et Inês Petiz Viana
Music : Pega Monstro, Duarte Coimbra et Lena d’Água
Production : Pedro Ramalhete, Lisbon Theatre et L'ESTC
Distribution: Portugal Film
International sales: Portugal Film
Duarte Coimbra was born in 1996, in Lisbon, and has a degree in Cinema Directing from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC). Amor, Avenidas Novas, produced within the school, is his first film as director.