Two atypical characters, one red and one blue, try to communicate. Were it not for Alain’s shyness and Rosalba uncontrollable body behaviour whenever she hears a song, a love story could happen. But between the ebbs and flows there is a tiny space. In this major work, Le Quellec entertains and moves us and we feel like saying: the secret is in the pin! (M. V.)
The last troll in Norway is walking the rural roads of the Norwegian countryside. It is nice and quiet, but a bit lonely. The troll has adapted to modern society; it’s wearing trousers and is becoming addicted to sugar. But where have all the other trolls
What to do if you have to finish your meal, but you´re not hungry at all anymore? Toni finds a way.
A baby will be born from a summer night and something must be done. The protagonist is up for the task and catches a plane from Portugal to Canada, so he can be near the mother of his child. The scenario he finds on his arrival is almost laughable: a monotone and indecisive pregnant woman, an apathetic boyfriend, a hostile city. The most heartbreaking of all winters is in Winnipeg, says Ryan McKenna, who wanted to film Portugal precisely by opposing it to the icy solitude of Canada. Kaurismaki would see here some of his humor without the least of compassion. (M. M.)
In a scenario that mixes animation and live image, people explain the international crisis, while a (bad) singer fills the air with familiar songs. Opinions vary, but everyone agrees on the amount of mistakes. A chaotic universe that represents well the questions of the people. A film that reflects animatedly on the state of the world. (P. C.)
In the school yard, Benoit loses a bet against his friends. His dare: To ask Aglaée, a disabled student, to go out with him.
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Um filme muito cómico, em que um queixo tornado cabeça se transforma num imitador de vozes. Ficamos a conhecer a forma de cantar desde a Austrália até à África. (P.C.)
Fourteen-year-old Eugène has been dancing since he was six. Not really something boys should be doing, at least, that’s what his classmates say. Although Eugène is bullied at school because he likes ballroom dancing, he won’t be put out of his stride. This year, he’s going to show the whole school that he’s a really good dancer and he won’t be put down. Will Eugène succeed in convincing his schoolmates that ballroom dancing isn’t silly? A film about Eugène dancing his way back to self-confidence.
Eryk Rocha deepens the narrative and emotional value of music, this time producing a portrait of the artist Jards Macalé, his longtime friend. An unusual musical documentary, closer to a poetic essay, in the words of the director. In addition to interviews, we enter the day-to-day life of the artist, know him thoroughly, over four weeks of recording his new album, as crew and musicians merge in the studio. Documentary, music, poetry and storytelling meet.
Skateistan represents an oasis where children can be children and build the kind of cross-cultural relationships that Afghanistan needs for future stability.
This is a strange kind of breakout, both an escape and a quest for an unknown goal, its solution a veiled reference.
This film testifies the end of demonization and negation of the humanity of the Black people in the USA through the decades of the 50’s and 60’s. Through a remarkable dialogue between image and sound, we follow the way leading from submitted Niggers to Black people eventually trying to build an own identity. (K. S.)
Charlotte, 17 years old, is preparing to leave her hometown, but this night trip will bring out something very sinister. The Giant is a sensory film that clings to the skin – the narrative, the framing and editing will gradually become ambiguous and the slowness of the characters’ actions creates a rhythm that transports us to a bizarre and very dark place. (R. F.)
Welcome to Rubika, a planet with a fancy gravity.
The parents of Fatimata announce great news to their daughter: they are going to settle down in Canada. Fatimata is sad to leave her best friend …
A sequence of events will force Hezarfen to achieve the first human flight.
A portrait of the filmmaker and film critic Jean -Louis Comolli. After working for Cahiers du Cinéma between 1962 and 1978, where he was editor in chief from 1966 to 1971, Comolli began directing fictions and documentaries. In the confined space of a movie studio, he is now faced with some clips from significant films and takes the viewer into his reflection and out of reality for a bit. As the director of this homage explains in the title, filming is seing with new eyes, with a new consciousness.
Kim and Bill live in Baltimore and are splitting up by the time Abby, their daughter, a college student, comes home for the vacation. Bill and Kim are surprised by the visit of their niece, Taryn, runing away from her parents’ house in Northern Ireland. After Putty Hill, screened in IndieLisboa in 2010, Matthew Porterfield returns with I Used To Be Darker, a film that sensitively portrays human relationships within an American family and that proves the talent of a filmmaker in full command of a contemporary narrative cinema that has no pudency about fetching documentary devices ‚ real décors and non-professional actors ‚ to tell us, with vividness and accuracy, the reality in which we live. I see real people that I love, Porterfield wrote about the film. The emotions predominate, the stories are about people we love, the songs are there to be listened to. (C. C.)