CLIT is a film festival that turns audience members into treasure hunters in search of the venues where films will be screened. They get clues about the screening location through the festival's website and social media.
The venue can be anywhere, except at a regular movie theatre, because CLIT is an acronym for Cinema em Locais Inusitados e Temporários (Cinema in Unusual and Temporary Venues).
For the 2024 edition, we welcome submissions from all genres and lengths.
We will privilege works that focus on topics such as freedom and biodiversity and environmental protection.
We strive to have venues which are in line with the films theme.
For instance, in October 2021, a medium-length documentary on salsa was followed by a salsa class, where guests and audience had the chance to dance a bit.
And, in October 2023, a biopic about the German singer-songwriter Gerhard Gundermann, who chose to work in coal mines until he died, was screened at the remains of the Lousal Mine factory, near Grândola.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS:
Festroia is a non-profit organization based in Setúbal, Portugal. It was created in 1987 to promote film activities, allowing its founders to continue the work developed in 1985 and 1986, when they organized the first two editions of Festroia - International Film Festival. Until 1994, the Association held this festival in Tróia, migrating it in 1995 to Setúbal, where it stayed until its 30th and last edition, in 2014.
Over the years, it welcomed artists like Pedro Almodóvar, Christopher Lee, Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Christopher Walken, Agnieszka Holland, Dome Karukoski, Dennis Hopper, Christiane Torloni, Michael York, Mickey Rooney, Maria de Medeiros, Alberto Sordi, Joaquim de Almeida, Assumpta Serna, Ingvar Sigurðsson or Ben Gazzara.
In 2007, Festroia was the first international film festival worldwide to compensate its carbon footprint.
Monte de Letras is a cultural organization in the municipality of Montemor-o-Novo, in the Alentejo region. Open to all forms of art, it is guided by values such as biodiversity and environmental protection, creativity, and freedom.
In 2023-24, it was responsible for the "Stories on the walls" project, that celebrated the 50 years of the Carnation Revolution by promoting the collective painting of 6 news murals, talks with experts from Chile, Portugal and Ireland, as well as photo exhibitions of historical murals that were shown at venues in Portugal, Serbia and Northern Ireland.
