When the Wind is strong and permanent, people adjust to the conditions and life is lived according to its direction, even though one does not know the powers behind it.
Archives: Filmes
Working to Beat the Devil introduces the ageing scientist Guy Shewring who uses the words of Charles Darwin to discover the secrets of creation and life, and to build an imaginary world in which science becomes fiction.
A collective work about this racist and spectacular war of social classes, which doesn’t recognize its own name but whose violence is always growing, which criminalizes entire strata of population and mocks at the very notion of humanity. Says Hamé that the process experiments itself in the neighborhoods, which serve as labs to repression, and then contaminates everything. A group of authors (filmmakers, videasts, artists, singers, writers, graphic designers) have put themselves at work.
Tram nº 28. From Graça to Prazeres, the trip takes 20 minutes. This didactic short on the places of Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon has a little more than 20 minutes. Fernando Cabral Martins, who played the character of Pessoa in “Conversa Acabada”, uses the tram to cross Lisbon and ear some pieces of the poet’s work.
In Yearbook a man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet blows up.
Zima travels through the glacial beauty of the Siberian Winter following the words of people who have to struggle with nature under one of the harshest climates on Earth.
Robinson arrives at the Desperation Island. He meets Vitória and Rute.
An edgy and powerful science fiction story of a society where everything is perfect, except no one is allowed to speak.
Zombies4Kids is a musical animated survival guide for children facing the un-dead.
Un Chat sur l’Épaule is a story about cinema: for forty years, in his Grenoble workshops, Jean-Pierre Beauviala has been inventing cameras that made the emergence of a light-weight, in-the-field cinema possible. Today, the camera market is saturated with new tools. Everyone experiments new ways of film-making. In cinema, celluloid and artisanship are gradually becoming a thing of the past. And yet, Beauviala keeps on inventing. What Utopia does he still pursue?
Rooms in an abandoned, burnt out house revealed by multiple in-camera superimpositions of a single torch-light. It marked the start of Ben River’s hand-processing film, which he continued to use from then on.
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Due to a misunderstanding with one of her husband’s colleagues, Magali has to bear to be pregnant. A lie that will help herself in facing a difficult period of her life, reclaiming the relationship with her family and giving new energies to her ill father. The fake pregnancy becomes so important to be considered as real. Supported by the wonderful sound track by Archie Sheep, Claire Simon goes back to the fiction with a story about what we see and what we would like to see.
Une vie radieuse is a fiction set in 1952 when the Radiant City of Marseille receives its first occupants, attracted by Le Corbusier’s ideals; upon arrival, a couple experience the location, facilities, and space allotted to them.
From the late 40’s to today, where the past and the present intersect, this film is a journey to the creative universe of the Vieira Dias High School, “father” of the Angolan popular music, and creator of the “Ngola Ritmos” band. It was a permanent original contribution to the cultural and social history of Angola.
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.
Uma Vida Mais Simples is the story of a white family in Africa; screening the 8mm films the director’s grandfather shot in Mozambique and South Africa between 1954 e 1978, the grandparents recall those moments in their lives.
Mille Soleils documents Mati Diop’s journey to Senegal where her family story, the story of cinema and that of the country meet.