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Secção: Retrospectivas | Retrospectives
A haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of this century’s most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung.
A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.
A film about fatherhood and the bond between a father and his infant daughter. The filmmaker documents the first eighteen months of the child’s life, showing the progression from newborn to infant to toddler.
A little girl’s love for Charlie Chaplin and candy.
Mind Movies is a crimestory-erotic-lyrical-experimental-vampire-fantasy-horror- soapopera-splatter-trash-roadmovie-melodrama posing as a documentary. 11 authors talk before the camera about filming stories that at this point only exist in their minds.
Four days in Vienna. Four days -‚ the world news. At home we give birth, we teach our children, wash our dead or just wait for the bus. The images television delivers during this period are strikingly different images in those days. A Philippine ferry sinks, Saddam Hussein decorates soldiers and in Vienna there is a war that never happened.
Excerpts from a musical cine-choreography by Paulo Ribeiro. The performances are transformed by the trans-real music of Nuno Rebelo. A trip to Norhern Portugal.
A small musical film inspired from 3 themes by Lello Minsk and Shegundo Galarza.
During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with contingents of servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic culinary carnage. In this phantasmagoric, otherworldly universe an unexpected sequence of events destabilizes the endless symphony of abundance.
A remix of the unreleased cine-diary Impending Doom.
What iz time? How do we travel through? What iz a moment? Who or what iz the short-time mob? Lisbon 94 faces dramatik weather-time changes. Everything and everyframe minglez at the center of thizz film-time
Aki who works at a design company, and Tetsuro who is a restaurant owner, have been living together for several years. They respect each other’s independence, and have a generally carefree relationship. One morning Tetsuro receives a phone call from Shun, his 8-year-old son. Tetsuro’s ex-wife has been hospitalised with a broken leg following an automobile accident. Tetsuro brings his son to the home he shares with Aki. Aki is, at first, furious that she was not consulted before Shun arrived on her doorstep. Later, she accepts the task of caring for the boy. The new living arrangement brings unexpected stress. Aki must now handle many new chores in the house; while balancing numerous responsibilities at work. It all begins to wear on her nerves. Shun becomes homesick and runs away to his mother’s apartment. Aki begins to look for a new place to live, on her own, as she fears she will break down if she doesn’t get away.
At the dawn of this new millennium, and for the first time in the history of mankind, the majority of the individuals will be living in an urban milieu. Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New York, four examples of overpopulated metropolises, are monsters both seductive and repellent. The contradiction insinuates itself into the daily lives of those who populate these megacities, and who, day in day out, struggle for survival. These people maybe poles apart, both geographically and culturally, but there are close parallels in their daily existence, such as prostitution, homelessness, crime and drug addiction. But they also have in common resilience and hope, courage and dignity. Because this is not only a document about work, poverty, violence, love and sex. This is also a film about the beauty of people.
Three ex-students get the ultimate offer: shooting a porn video! This sounds like money, sexual adventure and above all fun. Despite a few initial difficulties, the three friends develop an almost fierce ambition to achieve their goal.
A house cat dreams of her past lives.
A satire by Eric Satie to the bureaucratic world of the artists. A film conceived during a workshop with students of Film and Theatre, for a theatre play.
A documentary about the life and work of António Pedro, a Portuguese surrealist artist and a sort of phantom figure in the history of Portuguese theater.