If she’s over 40, grew children and a not so polite man as partner, a woman can start wondering about the ways she had conducted her life. Or being carried by it. Anyway and no matter what she does, she’ll always feel wrong‚Ķ (Possidónio Cachapa)
Archives: Filmes
Rodri will be 47 soon and he hasn’t worked in eight years. His older sister tries to help him find a job, but it is not easy to persuade him to accept a job which is not up to his aspirations. A family drama where everyone gets mad because they all love each other. (M. Moz)
Victor is a former rock musician who will do anything to help his addict son and his rock band, in a small Romanian town. At the same time, he is trying to rebuild a new family with the woman he is with. But Victor’s life seems to get more and more complicated and leans toward his son and his rock band. After Morgen, screened at IndieLisboa in 2011, Marian Crisan returns with his second feature film, Rocker, focusing on family relationships between father and son. The film follows this father, lost in a maze of emotions and frustrations, whose escape turns out to be, after all, rock music and the band’s concert in a larger city. (C. C.)
In a pharmacy, everyday is always the same ‚ giving methadone to those in need, but especially to those who have the right recipe. Between bureaucracy and compassion, the pharmacist tries to survive this situation, not the most fun. With restraint and rigor, Bourges talks to us again about the routine of the unprotected, never daring to judge. (Miguel Valverde)
A bunch of post Hungarian punks face the camera and speak about the communism and post-communism era in Hungary. The punk era in Hungary emerged in the early 80s when the economic and cultural depression affected the country severely. It was the time when angry musicians played punk rock with anti-communist lyrics. It was a different time, the colors were different, the smells were different, the people’s faces were different, it was like an another planet comparing to Hungary now. Super-8 images of themselves when they were 20 years old stating this different planet. An exploration of life and politics in Hungary before and after the fall of Berlin Wall. The high hopes for a better world and the reality that followed where the poor became even poorer and the rich even richer. (Nina Veligradi)
Robin and Robin meet in a laundry. While waiting for the washing to be over, they get attracted by their obvious similarities. (M. Moz)
In just a few minutes and even lesser words, we are confronted with a short story which repeats itself three times a year, during seven hours. (M. Moz)
Five Emiles ‚ perhaps in remembrance of the five children whom Rousseau abandoned to welfare services ‚ are splashing in the bathtub. Their conversation on nature, man and education is animated, paradoxical, and humorous.
Three unusual paintings played by the director that literally tests her limits in this encounters with the landscape of São Miguel, in Azores. The power that emanates from the filmed landscape is as seductive as the risky shape of the encounter between image and sound. A limit-film for an inventive Portuguese artist. (Miguel Valverde)
The family history of a Gipsy father and a non-Gipsy mother inspires the director to search for what her life would have been if her father, much like his own unconventional mother, wouldn’t have broken the tradition. In this journey of self-discovery she meets Joaquina, a young girl fully immersed in the Gypsy community and who is a counterpoint to the experience of the director. (M. Moz)
13 paintings by Edward Hopper come to life in a film that tells the story of Shirley, a woman whose gaze, thought and emotions lead us to the American historical context from the 30s to the 60s. Director of Film ist. A Girl and a Gun, which screened in IndieLisboa in 2009, Gustav Deutsch delves deep into the aesthetics of the works of Edward Hopper to recreate it in cinema, with an absolutely wonderful film, happily intersecting painting with the moving image. Hopper’s work, highly influenced by cinema, has inspired filmmakers like Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmush. It is the aesthetic theme for Deutsch’s film, which gives life to the characters and places depicted by the painter without neglecting any brushstroke”. The shadows are there to recreate the environments, but also the movement of a curtain, the reflections of light and sound, leading to a close relationship between inside shots and off camera exteriors. (C. C.)
Eskimal and Morsa work together to preserve the Great Glaciet, facing imminent disaster brought on by the industrialized world.
El Señor Studio has the honour to present the failures of the natural selection. A set of strange creatures whose instincts instead of focusing on survival seem doomed them to an absurd and comic extinction, in the presence of the astonished gaze of the narrator. The character of the Narrator was a documentary star, but unfortunately for him, the good times are over.
Seven Days’ til Sunday follows a group of characters who commit the strangest follies in New York City, in a homage to silent film comedy.
Visual musical poem, in which Sakda tells us who he is while his sound spreads to the flow of the Mekong River. We feel in each shot of this short film the heartbeat of its unique filmmaker – Joe, whose red-eye ghosts accompany us through a sensorial film experience. (M. V.)
Dragonslayer portrays the life and journeys of Josh a professional skateboarder aka as Skreech or Dragonslayer according to a nickname of a friend. Josh in a self-destructive mode he travels from California to Copenhagen followed by wide angle lenses and grungy atmospeare of the non pretentious kind. A documentary divided into 11 chapters titled by two word sentences of bumpy strugling in between maturity and imaturity of Josh existance. Skating in empty swimming pools, crushing in abandoned houses Josh is searching for meaning. Punkrock poetry and crude impressionism, stunning cinematography using flamboyant colors this doc is especially addressed to the dreamers and non-compromised ones. A film about youth, music, travel, love, and skate that smells like a teen spirit. (Nina Veligradi)
Ghali and Mohammed are two friends living in Casablanca. One is the son of a rich family, the other his employee. They drink alcohol, they want to wander around with a girl without being harassed, they try to be alive, young. But what can you do in a corrupted country that hates its youth? (Karim Shimsal)
In the middle of the forest, an old man insists on resisting the confusion of the world. The only sounds that he allows himself are the ones of Nature around him and the typewriter which composes his thoughts. An essential documentary about the vividness and clarity in the eyes of a man who refuses hypocrisy and worldliness. (P. C.)