The satire couldn’t be clearer about Hong Kong’s housing problems, its high prices and the conditions it puts those without means. Hence the “coffin houses” that give its name to this black comedy, which winks at the insufficiency of square meters, as well as at this fictional predicament regarding people who assent to live in haunted houses. Full of exacerbated violence, an anthological film with several stories to tell.
A short film from the 1960s, a production by Francisco de Castro, Albufeira is a promotional film encouraging tourism in the Algarvian city (as is Lisboa, Jardim da Europa), showing, however, the authorial and experimental touch of António Macedo, one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Novo, who was always inclined to escape constrictions of production. This screening taks place within the project FILMar, operated by Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, with the finantial support of the EEAGrants 2020-2024 program
Every year, on his daughter’s birthday, the father films her answers to the same questions. As we watch the girl grow, from baby to adult, we also see the evolution of the relationship between father and daughter.
In a small town, it’s the municipal stadium that gives an amorphous shape to the community that surrounds it. Among pranks, freestyle raps and a sandwich joint with an illicit business, a mystical figure emerges to upset the lives of those who see it.
The Lost Record is a documentary but also an essay, a fantastic tale that brings together rock’n’roll and science fiction. Alexandra Cabral and Ian F Svenonius, former lead singer of The Make-up and Nation of Ulysses, offer this meditation on the power of objects that we think are important. What do we do when we find something that is lost and that fascinates us? Do we keep it to ourselves or do we give it to the world as well?
Italo disco has synthesizers, catchy melodies and chaotic English lyrics. It is the music of Sabrina and La Bionda, possessing an idiosyncratic imagery that has benefited from a recent revival. It may not have been the coolest genre of the 1980s, but it was influential and underrated. Taking it not too seriously, this film looks at all aspects of this phenomenon.
In the countryside, the days were always the same, which led Súóng to go to Saigon, the city full of people and infinite possibilities. But when she gets a job at a small eatery, with two other girls — who also live there, together — she gets into a passive routine. Nothing seems to exist outside of the restaurant. But her inner life isn’t so carefree and there is a battle inside her that she will have to resolve.
In the northeast of Brazil, the country’s first manned spaceship will be launched. On the outskirts, a mother that works as a housekeeper looks to the sky with longing.
An idiosyncratic animation, where a kid gets caught up in his father’s obsession with car racing. The outcome of a competition is in the son’s hands.
A filmic contemplation on the use of masks, the faces of our loved ones and the rituals we create to feel connected to what comes after death.
“Cooking is caring” and this is an ode to one of the most affectionate gestures. An animation that takes us through the preparation of a meal, from coriander soup to hake dumplings, and the playful dynamics this familiar (and familial) routine provides.
Two kids kick a ball around, dreaming of one day playing for their favorite football team. The arrival of older teenagers turns the afternoon into a bitter ordeal.
As the proverb says, “an exhausted snake has sharp teeth, but blurred vision”. Pedro is an electrician who lives in a remote village until the day a tragic accident occurs. To escape serious trouble, he runs away, but doesn’t go far. The village’s pardon, however, will not be easy to obtain.
The director takes us on a journey, in more ways than one, in which she investigates old photographs and home videos of her parents, trying to get to know the people they were before she existed.
An Azorean spaghetti western in which two outlaws, as tradition dictates, clash in a cemetery over a fistful of gold coins.
News arrives from the doctor regarding a back ache and Celeste’s mundane and lonely life is shaken.
A young, too young, prisoner responds that he wants meat and a coke for his last supper. But the film’s title is the only question that really haunts his soul.
This 360º video installation, commissioned by the Nagano Art Museum, a moving painting, breaking or enhancing the link between painting and film, with sublime images reveling in the profusion of details.