Short documentary about René Depestre, poet and former communist activist, one of the most important figures in Haitian literature.
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Portrait of Argentine sculptor Alberto Carlisky who, after a militant and journalistic life in Buenos Aires, goes to work in Paris with Ossip Zadkine, a cubist sculptor naturalized in France. Carlisky then develops work in his own name.
The opening of the Théâtre Noir de Paris, a theater company and cultural association created with the objective of providing a place of creation and a space of representation for theater that heralds from Africa (specifically connected to négritude) and the French Antilles.
Wifredo Oscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla is Wifredo Lam, a Cuban painter and sculptor who made a career in Europe. When he moved to France in 1938, he was supported by Picasso. Throughout his career, he sought to disseminate the Afro-Cuban spirit and culture.
A city has its character, provided by its architecture. But it’s one that is diverse and made up of buildings of foreign inspiration. These are the corners of Paris that we visit here.
The seventh of thirteen half hours that make up an encyclopedic project on the legacy of ancient Greece in the world. This episode is dedicated to logos, logomania, and the universe of dialectics.
The vibrant colours and the texture give an idiosyncratic beauty to a film whose main character lives haunted by violent memories that are revealed as we get to know him better. ‘Pinky’ has fled a cult linked to a transcendent figure, but now he is unable to reconcile the turbulence he feels. An individual journey that intertwines with the social and political panorama of Colombia.
Vadim has to get out of the comfort of his own square, something that’s not easy. Out there, there is only the unknown. And the unknown is always frightening. Until we embrace all that it can offer us, the good and the bad.
(In partnership with Lisboa 5L Festival)
Truffaut’s first colour film combines the black humour of the French director and the morality of Ray Bradbury’s book, which has already been adapted to cinema several times, specifically because of the way in which the story’s dystopia is portrayed. It’s a world where literature is banned for being the spark that can light the flame of revolution, something that is literally extinguished by dedicated firefighters.
[Based on the romance by Ray Bradbury]
Presentation: Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre
(In partnership with Lisboa 5L Festival)
Visconti makes Thomas Mann’s protagonist, Gustav von Aschenbach, a composer rather than a writer, but the film is a fairly faithful adaptation of the German author’s novella. Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons and finds a city struggling with a cholera epidemic. There, he meets Tadzio, a Polish boy, and becomes dazzled by his beauty.
[Based on the novel by Thomas Mann]
Presentation: Claudia Fischer
(In partnership with Lisboa 5L Festival)
Talking about 2001: Space Odyssey is talking about a film that has become one of the most influential works in the history of cinema. Indelible in the collective consciousness are aspects such as the opening music (Thus Spake Zarathrusta), the monolith scene, as well as the A.I. character that is HAL and the Oscar-winning special effects. The film focuses on a trip to Jupiter and addresses themes such as existentialism or human evolution.
[Based on the short story The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke]
Presentation: Luís Nogueira
A village in Corsica, in the summer. A piece of the life of its inhabitants, between the games of the youngest, the love affairs of the teenagers and the considerations of the elders. The heat of the season, in the middle of August, also heats up tensions, which threaten to overflow.
Samuel Barbosa, in his first feature film, explores the creative process of Paulo Rocha (Os Verdes Anos) and his films, through his characters, the artists he worked with and other testimonies of his art.
Sérgio Tréfaut returns to Brazil to film the public gardens of the Palácio do Catete, the former official residence of the presidents of Brazil that today houses the Museum of the Republic. Before the pandemic, this place of leisure was also a meeting point for the Seresta guys, a group of elderly people with a love for Brazilian singing and music that this film pays tribute to.
An animated documentary that tells the story of Amin, who, before marrying his boyfriend, decides to reveal a secret he has been hiding for twenty years. Amin arrived in Denmark as a refugee from Afghanistan. In this movie, he deals with his traumatic past.
Joe Kerry (the nice guy from the popular Stranger Things tv show) is Kurt Kunkle, a driver obsessed with the idea that if you’re not documenting yourself, you don’t exist. In an attempt to become a viral hit, he films himself killing passengers. Told in the first person, it is a hybrid between comedy and horror, with a message of caution when it comes to social media.
A classic of 70s Italian horror that celebrates 50 years since its premiere. The plot begins when the wealthy and wheelchair-bound Countess Federica Donati is killed in the middle of the night. Her mansion, overlooking the eponymous bay, will be the object of desire for many people, illegitimate children included. But the deaths don’t seem to stop.
A look at the intimate writing of the artist couple Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Árpád Szenes, through an exhaustive documentation of the couple’s life in the period depicted. João Mário Grilo picks up where José Álvaro de Morais left off.