A man with a fish face walks in an amusement park, spreading random bubbles of misfortune on people. The cruelty and perversion are everywhere and the only ones who escape are the harmless rabbits. (M. C.)
Archives: Filmes
Juho Kuosmanen brings us the low temperature of the Finnish winter, not only through the frozen landscape where the action takes place but also by the contained way people push their dilemmas from one place to another. A non passionate film on the surviva
In a remote village up the mountain, a young girl is crying and little by little her tears invade the valley putting into danger the existence of the village. Is it worth to understand why she is crying or should the inhabitants face the ineluctable risin
In this animation, a choir of boys, a mass of unpredictable talent, goes on tour and gets lost in games and experiments typical of their age, when their conductor is distracted. She seems to lead an army of absolutely unpredictable tiny creatures, always singing. (A. P.)
In the ’80s, a group of computer programmers of chess software passes the weekend in a tournament competition in their field. Recreating the atmosphere of the world of informatics and its professionals and hobbyists, the director of Mutual Appreciation and Beeswax returns to IndieLisboa, with a very peculiar film that is considered, until now, his deeper and more intuitive project. To recreate the aesthetic image of the early ’80s, Bujalski used an old video camera, managing to recreate in a faithful and humorous way the situations experienced by participants in the computer chess tournament. More than a playful tournament, it is a competition between technology and the human spirit that is at stake. (C. C.)
He used to say the film began with a very slow and soft camera, a delicate zoom, and advanced in search of Barbot. (Allan Ribeiro)
Six friends meet every evening in a basement to make music. Rita left Ricardo, Rafael found her, but she still feels lost. Eduardo thought he no longer liked Maria, but after what he has done he cannot turn the clock back. João lacks the courage to break
A beautiful flamenco dancer, a toreador and a bull. The bull does not want to die and chases the toreador through the town and into the countryside until he escapes up a tree. But how on earth will the toreador ever get down again with the beast eyeing him from below? Thank goodness for mobile phones ‚ and a rescue crew from Latvia. An amusing animated film about the dangers of bullfighting and the power of women.
Various machines. Mechanical and precise choreographies. Unusual places. Strange men. These are some of the themes that unite the trilogy of films about the work of Italian artist Yuri Ancarani. In Da Vinci he shows an operating room through a dizzying journey inside the human body and a mechanical ballet on its exterior. (M. V.)
Clélia lives alone in her big house and spends her time taking care of the cat and the flowers in the garden. Her world is ineluctably shrinking as the few people calling her on the phone are so selfish she prefers to stop answering. Hopefully her not-as-
Liberty is young and he dreams of the future. Besides him, a beautiful Chinese. But it misses only something for perfection. Gabriel Abrantes, once again with Benjamin Crotty, explores ironic and poetically a dispirited universe, in which the boats that l
In The Tales of Things we delve into the vast and intimate world of an antique shop. We analise it carefully. The ambience is solemn evocation. We hear whispers. Some sentences are perceptible from the rest. They speak of past livings and wonderful mysterious stories the objects hold. The shop swarms of shelved objects. Old china is held, exposed, as are porcelain dolls, toy cars and tin soldiers. Whispers fill the air, one after the other.
Corridor is a reflection on anthropomorphism and the institutional nature of space.
Architecture is an echo of a silent frustration. A construction project (by Niemeyer) of the times Lebanon was a case of democratic success. It is still unfinished and it functions as a recipient of the unconscious collective of the characters and their f
Johnson, Benjamin and Mellaz are a sympathetic bunch of poetic, fragile anti-heroes living in the bleak suburbs of an undefined city. Long travellings exacerbate the loneliness of empty streets and sublimate in contrast the deep generosity of these lost s
From photographs of true cities with a traumatic past such as Berlin, Budapest and New York, the director builds imaginary cities that could very well exist. Cities where we live, where we have friends, family, work. A poetic reflection on photography about what a city is. (C. R.)
Dad’s Stick presents three very used objects that my father showed me shortly before his death. Two of them are so rich in stories that have lost their original form and their functions are completely obscured. The third object seems to be recognized immediately but eventually became something completely different. (John Smith)
A woman spends her days alone at home. At night, her husband returns but avoids communication. The closed doors and the silent hallways are the territory of fears and hopes. In dreams, past and future blend together.