Nuno Teotónio Pereira is mostly known as an architect. But throughout his career he was also many other things. Even if in all of those things he never ceased being an architect. And if all of those things always end up leading to the architect he is. This “portrait” of Nuno Teotónio Pereira doesn’t intend to be more than a introduction to his life and work, knowing that a whole life won’t fit in one movie.
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“The Man who Bottled Clouds” takes us on a journey of discovery, not just into the harsh Brazilian northeast, not just into the BAIÃO [the songwriter, composer, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira (1915-1979), known as Baião Doctor], but into the culture and history of the entire country.
We’re first amazed by the technique behind the film, the Phonovideo, based upon the ancient optical toys, and allied to two record-players. And then we’re amazed by the record method of one single take. In the third place, we are amazed by the final resul
In a winter’s night, a rescue team tries to save a group of alpinists stuck in the mountain. Through the radio, a man fights to keep a girl alive with what he has: words. We never see her and, suddenly, the plot becomes more dense in the end and in the sk
“Of Time and the City” is both a love song and a eulogy to Liverpool. It is also a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of place as the skyline changes and time takes it toll.
A little girl, a woman, and an old lady are all in constant movement. They live their own simple journeys that culminate together in one unique and revealing story ending.
In the 1930’s an Abbot in French Normandy was publishing a revue which would answer the very practical sexual question of his readers. Using the letters, the film unfolds a portrait of rural France, the ignorance, the fears, the will to be part of the flo
Filmed in Super 8mm, this film tell us the story of an ambulant sharpener who crosses spaces in a country (almost) lifeless. The universe of director Patrick Mendes is a very particular one, it’s situated at the opposite side of sensationalism. And we dis
A film begun as a portrait of S, a 75 year old man living in a remote part of Inverness-shire. S has been obsessed with Darwin’s works for much of his life. Since a child he has wondered at life on Earth and, though he never became an academic, found in Darwin many answers to his questions.
A police officer carries out a search of a man’s apartment and enters the life of someone forgotten by everyone.
The drawings of a journey’s journal come to life. The pages of the graphic journal maintained by Herguera throughout the years he was in India, give place to the story of Inês and Ámár and to the recollections of the last visit. A film about feelings and
Tao Gu visits the city of his parents, devastated by the China’s earthquake of 2008. With an astonishing black & white photography, the ruins are filmed, the physical ruins of the buildings and the emotional ruins of the survivors. A film that inevitably
“Muitos Dias Tem o Mês” it’s a contemporary documentary on the Portuguese society: the Portuguese life on credit. Looking at the credit’s acquisition devices, we understand his protagonists motivations. The application for credit became vulgar and consumption became democratic. We accumulate debts, everything has a price. In a country which seems to be at sale, what’s the price of our needs?
“Descendants” is a short about the wish of reaching the unreachable and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil.
First feature film of Sergio Caballero, one of the directors of Sonar Festival. Two ghosts ‚ recognizable by their white garments ‚ go on a journey to Finisterra. A singular humorous and beautiful film, reminding us the Monty Python’s odysseys. Superb i
“Plage” is a sequence of images shot along Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, the night of New Year’s Eve. Coloured explosions illuminate the passers-by, while fireworks create a festive atmosphere that a sudden outburst of rain swiftly dissipates.
A short documentary in which the viewer finds himself in a dark place. A place where the noise of the night becomes music and reality and unconsciousness is indefinable. Suddenly the viewer wakes up and needs to face reality.
In the summer camp of Putin’s youth movement 10.000 young Russians are trained to make Russia the global leader of the 21st century.