This year the selected projects are:

AD VENTUM
Directed by: Barbara Mateos / Produced by: Barbara Mateos, Mário Gomes and Isabel Illoro, Adventum Films and On:Time, Spain

ALBERT CINEMA
Directed by: Agnieszka Zwiefka / Produced by: Agnieszka Zwiefka, Chilli Productions, Poland

ALBINO - SCHOOL IN BLACK AND WHITE
Directed by: Camilla Magid / Produced by: Jacob Oliver Krarup, Fourhands Film, Denmark

BASIC TRAINING
Directed by: Patrícia Leal and David La Rua / Produced by: Paulo Duarte, Câmara Lenta, Portugal

THE BLOOD OF THE MONSTER
Directed by: Giovanni Donfrancesco / Produced by: Estelle Fialon, Les Films du Poisson, France and Giovanni Donfrancesco, Altara Films, Italy

CANTE - REINVENTING TRADITION
Directed by: Sérgio Tréfaut / Produced by: Sérgio Tréfaut, FAUX, Portugal

DEATH IN THE DESERT - STORY OF A MASSACRE
Directed by: Judy Kibinge / Produced by: Beatrice Wangondu, Seven Productions, Kenya

DEFENDING RADOVAN KARADZIC
Directed by: Aleksandar Nikolic / Produced by: Aleksandar Nikolic and Rebecca Dobbs, Perfect Splice, UK

DESERT CANTOS
Directed by: Sofie Benoot / Produced by: Marteen D'Hollander, Off World, Belgium

DON'T SWAP HORSES IN MIDSTREAM
Directed by: Miguel Clara Vasconcelos / Produced by: Christine Reeh, C.R.I.M. Productions, Portugal

EUROPE FOR SALE
Directed by: Roberto Cena / Produced by: Enrica Capra, GraffitiDoc, Italy

MOHAMED AND THE FISHERMAN
Directed by: Marco Leopardi / Produced by: Marta Zaccaron, Quasar
Multimedia, Italy

MY WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN
Directed by: Petra Seliskar / Produced by: Petra Trampuz Bocevska, Petra Pan Film Production, Slovenia

NATACHA ATLAS - A DIVA IN PROGRESS
Directed by: Susanna Edwards / Produced by: Stina Gardell, Mantaray Film, Sweden

THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING
Directed by: Mila Turajlic / Produced by: Mila Turajlic, Dribbling Pictures, Serbia

THE WAR OF THE VOLCANOES
Directed by: Francesco Patierno / Produced by: Andrea Patierno, Todos Contentos y yo tambien, Italy

THE WAY OF THE DUDE - THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST UNLIKELY PROPHET
Directed by: Thomas Fazi / Produced by: Thomas Fazi, Dudeismfilm, Italy

WHOSE COUNTRY? - YOU CAN EASILY KILL AN EGYPTIAN
Directed by: Mohamed Siam / Produced by: Mohamed Hefzy, Film Clinic, Egypt

With her small camera, she films ordinary people, contemporary artists and film directors. In Portugal, Manuel de Oliveira talks about the guardian angel, and walks like Chaplin... Full of fantasy and charm, this is cinema signed Agnès de ci de là Varda.

A fabulous double bill in which we will also screen Peter von Bagh's (President of the Jury) Sodankylä Forever: the Yearning for the First Cinema Experience. A collage of filmmakers' testimonies throughout the years at the Midnight Sun Film Festival. With Jean Rouch, Agnès Varda, Manoel de Oliveira, Samuel Fuller, John Boorman, Emir Kusturica, Jim Jarmusch, Stanley Donen, Milos Forman, Abbas Kiarostami, Jerzy Skolimowski, Wim Wenders, and Jafar Panahi, among others.

Investigations section observes some relevant subjects like the Guantanamo prison - You Don't Like the Truth - 4 Days inside Guantánamo, by Luc Côté and Patricio Henríquez - the palestinians in Isarel - Rechokim, by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash - and also the story of a potential USA presidential candidate invloved in a sex scandal - Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, by Alex Gibney.
Another well known section, New Visions, shows some excepcional films like Aterro do Flamengo, by Alessandra Bergamaschi, a film discovered at the It's All True Film Festival, and Our Man, by Pedro Costa.
Heartbeat will cover all music genres from hip-hop, to classical music, jazz, pop and punk rock. A spotlight to two homages this year: Richard Leacock in Monterey Pop and Thomaz Farkas in Pixinguinha (both directors passed away this year).
During the festival, guest directors will attend both the screenings and the daily debates with the public. Among them are Frederick Wiseman, Ross McElwee, Fernand Melgar, Thomas Heise and many other guests.