Albufeira

António de Macedo

IndieLisboa 2022 • Special Screenings

Portugal, Fiction, Documentary, 1968, 28′

A short film from the 1960s, a production by Francisco de Castro, Albufeira is a promotional film encouraging tourism in the Algarvian city (as is Lisboa, Jardim da Europa), showing, however, the authorial and experimental touch of António Macedo, one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Novo, who was always inclined to escape constrictions of production. This screening taks place within the project FILMar, operated by Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, with the finantial support of the EEAGrants 2020-2024 program

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