Quentin Dupieux’s latest film, Le Vertige, makes its national debut at the opening screening. RATS!, by Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky, also making its debut in Portugal, will be the closing film.

The fifth edition of the HaHaArt Film Festival opens with a screening of Le Vertige, the latest film by Quentin Dupieux. With a filmography that spans the absurd, satire, and offbeat humor, Quentin Dupieux has become one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary comedy. After Yeees! and Le Deuxième Acte, Dupieux directs Le Vertige, his first animated feature film, which had its world premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival’s Quinzaine des Cinéastes and is now coming to Portugal. With a visual style inspired by video games, the film follows a man who visits a friend to reveal that all of humanity is living in a simulation.

Le Vertige joins Black Sunglasses, by Pedro Ramalhete, Lo demás es ruido, by Mexican director Nicolás Pereda, and Complaint No. 713317, the first feature film by Egyptian director Yasser Shafiey, in the Official Feature Film Competition.

The festival wraps up with RATS!, by Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky, an independent punk-inspired black comedy set in a small Texas town in 2007. In a chaotic series of events, a young man arrested for graffiti finds himself caught up in a police operation involving FBI agents and a plutonium deal gone wrong. DARN IT! It had its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, where it won one of the audience awards for Best International Feature Film, and has screened at numerous international festivals, including the Calgary Underground Film Festival and Fantaspoa. It will finally premiere in Portugal on October 25. .

The fifth edition of the HaHaArt Film Festival will take place October 21–26, 2026, in Pombal. General admission passes are on sale on the festival’s website, with a special offer Early Bird ends at the end of this week.