FIFEQ – Phosphene + Q&A [FREE SCREENING]

Free admission, limited seating available ! We advise you arrive 20 to 30 minutes before the start of the session to ensure your seat.

The screening will be followed by a pre-recorded presentation by the filmmaker (8–10 minutes)

Synopsis
Phosphene, by Miguel Filgueiras, focuses on the Garrano, a native horse of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, a mythical animal that embodies the connection between humans and nature. The film takes us to the mountains of northern Portugal, where shepherds have been hunting wolves for decades to protect their flocks.

Halfway between fiction, archival footage, and reality, it explores the boundary between myth and experience, between the comfort of reality and the strangeness of the imagination. Each image reveals the strength and courage of both those filming and those being filmed, weaving a fable about the confrontation between humanity and the power of nature, between the wild, the untamed, and the civilized.

Through this phosphene—a poetic gaze on the relationships between humans and animals—Miguel Filgueiras questions our interactions with the natural world and shows how myths and realities overlap to shape our shared experiences.

Biography
Miguel Filgueiras is a Portuguese filmmaker with a background in Fine Arts. In 2026, he premieres his feature documentary Fosfeno, selected for the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. In 2016, he directed the musical documentary essays Rendufe and Black Bombay at the invitation of the independent label Lovers & Lollypops. Premiering at the Porto/Post/Doc Film & Media Festival, the films travelled widely through international festivals dedicated to music documentaries, receiving awards in the United States and Sweden. His first film, Alto do Minho (2012), an experimental portrait of Minho identity, screened at 18 international documentary festivals, including the Margaret Mead Film Festival. Earlier, he received the Prémio Jovens Criadores in 2003 for a video art work that entered the collection of the Fundação PLMJ in 2005.