With a stunning black and white photograph by Raoul Coutard, Vivre sa vie is a film built for Anna Karina, which shows that besides being an icon of the Nouvelle Vague, she is a fabulous actress. Very few faces would pass unhindered in comparison to Falconetti in Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc (a film that Karina’s character will see, in a sequence of Vivre sa vie), also a sign of Godard’s genius and boldness. Godard in honor of Dreyer. Karina’s close ups in front of Falconetti’s close ups. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
A performative documentary on the (sound) barrier between public and private spaces.
The sea. Some snacks. Fire.
Emmanuel Chanda is a Zambian gemstone miner who was the lead singer of Witch, the country’s most popular rock band of the 1970’s. In 2016, Dutch artist Jacco Gardner visited Zambia to meet, play and record material together with him.
Isabel Aboim Inglez’s colorful animation recollects, frame-by-frame, her childhood memories of cowboys battling indians in the ‘Condor’ magazine.
A intimate portrait of the Swans, from their roots as a post-punk band through their ill-fated bid at mainstream in the 90s indie-rock goldrush, through breakups and chaos to their current status as one of the most accomplished bands in the world.
A Buddhist elephant, a socially media addicted hen, and a tree trunk afraid of insects enter a subway carriage.
The traffic is chaotic and there is only one force that controls it: the yellow lines that separates the tracks.
Radu Jude directs a provocative, didactic, inventive and highly intelligent investigation into Romania’s participation in the ethnic cleansing of the Third Reich during the 1941 Odessa massacre on the Eastern Front.
16-year-old Charlotte meets an engaged young man on vacation, but it’s summer and she is looking for romance.
In Portugal, João Ribas is synonymous with punk music. He propelled many important Portuguese bands and influenced many young musicians. This is a portrait of a man made by those who worked with him and who were his friends and family.
“A Ramadan in Lisbon” is a collective film that reveals a plural and heterogeneous Lisbon through a series of characters who, during the month of Ramadan, go through different experiences.
While two Parisian friends question their friendship and their lazy lifestyle in the capital city, in the countryside, a young composer puts the finishing touches to his opera. This is the myth of Orpheus revisited, and a pretext for win back his ex-fiancée, Adelia.
Godard’s second film commercially released (given the censorship imposed on Le petit soldat), Une femme est une femme is a tribute to the American musical and a distant echo of Design for Living by Ernst Lubitsch (1932), filmed in CinemaScope and in sumptuous colors. Awarded at the Berlin Film Festival for having “shaken the rules of film comedy,” it is a film of extreme lightness and elegance, in which Anna Karina has one of her best appearances. Anna is Angela, a cabaret dancer who thinks about motherhood, while she agrees and disagrees with her husband and his friend, with whom she stages a love triangle. “Une femme” / “infamous.” (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
A young father gives into the whims of his son by allowing him to wear a skirt to school. After getting complaints, him and his ex-wife have to deal with the pre-schooler’s hostile parents.
The boy got dumped, he wants to escape, so he tries to hitchhike. This surrealistic journey reflects his mood swings.
“Ted” is a bitter-sweet story of a man who grows to realize the value of his childhood memories and his once powerful imagination.
The untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary singer, Teddy Pendergrass, the man poised to be the biggest R&B artist of all time until the tragic accident that changed his life forever at the age of only 31.
