“Swallows” is about living in a country and a house that is not our own — in this case, a young Portuguese graphic designer in London.)
Secção: Brand New
“Map Museum” builds an architectural puzzle out of Centro Cultural de Belém exhibition spaces. )
“Logistics” tells a story of separation between a group of friends — those who leave and those who decide to stay in their country.)
“The Ideal Girl” brings back the memories of two older Portuguese women who coped with the female image nurtured by the fascist regime. )
“The Last Night” shows the last round of a young man before he leaves his boarding school.)
“The Girl From Berlin” films the silent and poetic moments of a young love between Lisbon and Berlin. )
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Silêncio Entre Duas Canções tells the story of a brother and a sister, Lucas e Laura, living temporarily in Berlin; the relationship between the two is shaken when Lucas reveals his wish to stay in the city, knowing his sister only thinks about leaving.
Sisters is a fiction built from images of various origins that follows a text telling how a mother, obsessed with the delicate beauty of her sons, decided to bring them up as girls, and how they adjust to it and at the same time invent new lives outside their bodies.
The first summer shapes the first years of our lives: we are freer after our fist summer, when we make our first decisions, when we have time to feel in our own terms, without hurrying. This film has the pace of the summer holidays spent on temporary jobs, driving classes, taking walks by the river and falling naively in love. Isabel meets Miguel and every day they get a little closer. The easiness of summer might not be perpetuated in time. This debut film of director Adriano Mendes has that same naivety, the charm of a first summer under the sun of the long walks, when nothing can go wrong. But the following season brings new ordeals and one must know how to look after a summer love.
Uma Vida Mais Simples is the story of a white family in Africa; screening the 8mm films the director’s grandfather shot in Mozambique and South Africa between 1954 e 1978, the grandparents recall those moments in their lives.
Tudo vai sem se dizer is a tribute to the director’s grandmother, Arminda, owner of a handicrafts shop in Viana do Castelo; the film shows the days of the grandmother in the present and in a past remembered in family films and in a letter the grandfather wrote from overseas, in 1958.
In Gata Má there is a little girl whose best mates are cats; in the words of her Mum, the little girl is special; as for the cats, sometimes they’re evil ‚ but that is something only the little girl knows.
In order to claim their labour rights, public transport workers decide to turn off the sound of the trains in circulation; the sentence opens the film Meio Corte that follows that same logic and introduces changes each time the train passes by the same place.
A Minha Idade is a fiction about a teenager living in an institution who, too old to be adopted, is offered a foster home; the idea of being part of a family is tempting but the adaptation might not be simple.
In Escala a man returns to his hometown years after he was forced to leave; there he tries to see the faces and places he once new, but the more he searches the more estranged he becomes.
Em Cada Lar Perfeito Um Coração Desfeito refers to Stendhal’s seven stages of love to approach disaffection and the reality of deception.
Alda is an animation about the transformations of the rural world and its consequences for those who have always lived there and can now only identify themselves with the interior of their houses.