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Archives: Filmes
In “Les résultats du féminisme”, there is a society in which gender roles are shifted. Will men stand to be unequal? Programmed together with “Be Natural – The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché”.
A professional diver undergoes an intense training regime punctuated by relentless blows on her trainer’s whistle. Utterly exhausted, she refuses to dive again and decides to visit a masseur.
Combining unprecedented access to Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, with accounts of her own family’s complex political and industrial past, Petra Costa witnesses their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
“The Hissing of Summer Sands” tell us about ‘The whistle man’, a sea-side character from the fascist years.
In order to take on a new job at the public sanitation department, Juliana moves to the town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she meets new people and discovers new horizons, trying to overcome her past.
For five years, seven friends filmed their lives, together and apart. They were colleagues in film school, but time carried them through different paths. “The House and the Dogs” comes from revisiting their extensive archive composed by multiple cameras and gazes.
“The House Is Yet To Be Built” is a travelogue to places which defy the surface of the world.
“Journey to the Magic Waterfall” is a sentimental journey through vintage game aesthetics: a character with a pitiful life is granted a wish, having a lovely singing voice.
A journey around Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians. Different generations and backgrounds meet, Angola to São Tomé, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau represented by old-school musicians and young producers.
Based on the homonymous tale by Heinrich Von Kleist (1810) from a true story (from the mid-sixteenth century), admired by writers like Goethe and Kafka thanks to Kleist’s powerful book, Volker Schlöndorff’s film focuses on the titular character. Horse dealer Michael Kohlhaas (David Warner) is forced to pay a tax to an aristocrat discovering that he was deceived, which leads him to exacerbate an innate sense of justice. Anna Karina plays the character of his wife, Elizabeth. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
“Martin pleure” presents us a romantic hooligan.
“Memory and Dictionary” is a documentary on those who still remember the whaling industry in the Azores.
Sol de Carvalho reflects on the history of Mozambique through the clash between a dead parent and a mourning son.
Written, directed, produced and starred by Anna Karina, Vivre ensemble (which was to be called Nous deux) is the actress’ directing debut. A conjugal portrait of the 70’s imbued with the spirit of time, in the Parisian and New York spaces of Saint-Germain-des-Près and the Latin Quarter, Harlem and Greenwich Village. Filmed in 16mm in four weeks with a small budget and difficulties inherent to being directed by a woman (and a woman-actress), the film is composed of six parts. It distils a realism punctuated by melancholy and the burlesque, in which the female protagonist lives her life decidedly. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
An elderly couple has to leave their home and property behind to start a new life near their daughter.
In an island on the south of Spain, a lone man collects olives from a landscape made of water and dry branches.