This year’s National Competition includes four feature films. Sérgio Tréfaut, who won several prizes with Lisboetas (2004) and Alentejo, Alentejo (2013), presents Treblinka (on April 26th at 21h30 and on the 30th at 17h15, Culturgest).
Travelling in the railway tracks that connect Poland, Russia and Ukraine, Tréfaut finds clues about a past that faces up to the post-war slogan: “Nevermore”. No, “Everything is happening again”.
Pedro Filipe Marques, the film editor of filmmakers such as Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes, presents The room you take (April 24th at 21h and April 29th at 21h15, Culturgest), his first feature film made after A Nossa Forma de Vida, the multi-prized screwball portrayal of the dynamic relationship between his grandparents. A surprising reflection in essay-form about mirrors, representation, theatre and the life between them.
José Barahona, who has been living in Brazil for some years, gives us a docu-fiction that adapts the homonymous book by the Brazilian writer Luiz Ruffato about emigration from Brazil to Lisbon. I was in Lisbon and remembered you (April 28th at 19h and April 30th at 14h45, Culturgest). The protagonist is Sérgio, from Minas Gerais, who is going to be a father and is forced to go to Lisbon with the expectation of a better life.
Marcelo Félix, who made his debut in A Arca do Éden, brings his new film Paul (April 27th at 19h and May 1st at 15h, Culturgest). The film ingeniously explores the frontiers between creation and object. A woman who writes subtitles feels affected by the film she is working on, a story that takes place in a swamp where people wander endlessly.