How many unrequited love affairs became the subject of a good film? We surrender to the failures of the heart.
Desde allá (Silvestre)
Lorenzo Vigas
April 20 (Wednesday), 21h30, Culturgest
April 23 (Saturday), 15h00, Cinema São Jorge
Stormy romance between a wealthy man and a teenager who is the lader of a criminal gang in Caracas.
Turks fruit (Independent Hero – Paul Verhoeven)
Paul Verhoeven
April 21 (Thursday), 21h30, Cinemateca Portuguesa
A shameless macho man remembers a love that went bad.
Love (International Competition Feature Films 1)
Réka Bucsi
April 21 (Thursday), 19h00, Culturgest
April 23 (Saturday), 17h00, Culturgest
April 29 (Friday), 10h30, Culturgest
Animated film about love as fungus.
Hotaru (International Competition Shorts 1)
William Laboury
April 21 (Thursday), 19h00, Culturgest
April 23 (Saturday), 17h00, Culturgest
April 29 (Friday), 10h30, Culturgest
Post-apocalyptical love in the Internet era.
La californie (Boca do Inferno)
Charles Redon
April 22 (Friday), 21h00, Cinema Ideal
April 26 (Tuesday), 19h00, Cinema Ideal
Frustrated love or obsessive love? Charles loves his girlfriend Redon so much that he is filming her everyday while she is imposing herself the discipline of ballet.
Le nouveau (IndieJúnior)
Rudi Rosenberg
April 23 (Saturday), 15h00, Cinema São Jorge
May 1 (Sunday), 15h00, Cinema São Jorge
Benoit, fourteen-years old boy, fells in love with Johanna, her colleague in his new school.
Spetters (Independent Hero – Paul Verhoeven)
Paul Verhoeven
April 23 (Saturday), 19h00, Cinemateca Portuguesa
Three motocrossers are in love with the same woman. Not everyone can win.
La tortue sur le dos (Director’s Cut)
Luc Béraud
April 28l (Thursday), 15h30, Cinemateca Portuguesa
A writer blames her wife for the creative blockage that afflicts him.
Menina (National Competition Shorts 4)
Simão Cayatte
April 28 (Thursday), 19h00, Cinema São Jorge
April 30l (Saturday), 21h30, Cinema São Jorge
A woman distrusts her husband.
2 automnes, 3 hivers (Independent Hero – Vincent Macaigne)
Sébastien Betbeder
April 28 (Thursday), 21h45, Cinema São Jorge
Crossed romance between a man trying to change his life and his friend, that turns an accident that sends him to the hospital into an opportunity to open his heart.
Une histoire américaine (Independent Hero – Vincent Macaigne)
Armel Hostiou
April 29 (Friday), 18h00, Cinema Ideal
A character played out by Vincent Macaigne tries to reconquer the heart of an ex-girlfriend in New York, but she doen’t want to be with him.
Les deux amis (Independent Hero – Vincent Macaigne)
Louis Garrel
April 30 (Saturday), 16h00, Cinema São Jorge
A love triangle that stars Louis Garel, Vincent Macaigne and, in the most distant vertex,Golshifteh Farahani.
The Lobster (Boca do Inferno)
Yorgos Lanthimos
May 1 (Sunday), 21h45, Cinema São Jorge
We are in a near dystopian future and the lonely bachelors are taken, according to the laws of the city, to the Hotel, where they have to find partner in 45 days or…