Untitled Sequence V I. I it”s the product crossed between the organic and the inorganic. On a experimental perspective Untitled Sequence V I.I is constructed in an evolution context, passing through different states in a continuous process of contamination.
Francisco, behave! I know it’s your birthday, you are thirty now, it’s carnival, you’ve dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that’s no reason to be so annoying‚Ķ Francisco, repeat after me: Up to your 30’s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve.
No one in the world chooses a place to be born. Some frontiers can be crossed just by stretching an arm. What’s the use of a frontier? The European Union is growing, but can a group of countries grow by shutting itself from other geographically contiguous countries? This film is made of pictures that we see daily on television, passing in front of our eyes like a formula 1 car, they were worked over, reframed, and tha action was slowed down.
This is the story of a housewife who wished to fly faraway but didn’t, perhaps, as she puts it, because she was born before time. She goes through the daily routine with the memories and songs from another time, that fills the soundtrack of her world.
TOBIS Award for Best Portuguese Film
Love, treason, revenge and… Zombies!
Experimental portrait of the city as an experimental in itself: Images are too intense and noises are something brutal.
A man falls madly in love with his up floor neighbour. Moved by desire and jealousy, he is going to eliminate every obstacle that lies between them. Unfortunately things turn out as he less expected.
The near future: Bruno is trying to win back is ex-wife. Under pressure from her domineering mother and new (arranged) boyfriend, Jorge, Isabel brings charges of harassment against Bruno. Bruno is tried and sentenced. A device designed to suffocate him if he goes within 100 meters of Isabel is implanted in his throat. But doesn’t deter Bruno, he practices holding his brath.
A dark winter night in the Portuguese countryside. A hostess bar where another working day is starting for the family who manages it – the father, mother and two daughters, the girls who entertain and seduce her clients. A world of false appearances and in which the dreams of a different life will end up falling to pieces. Because the fther, for whom a deal has gone badly, will be forced to sacrifice his younger daughter, and will thus end up tearing his whole family apart…
Agustina is a pretty young girl, single, high-born and very much her own boss. She has a passion for other girls like herself. She has no doubt that in order to satisfy the impulses of love, the participation of the proud male species is not only useless, but harmful. Young Franville, aware of Agustina’s firm convictions against the opposite sex, and madly in love with her, decides to conquer her disguised as a woman.
A junkyard in a desolate landscape, an obese woman dressed as a mechanic roasting a pig, a dying man under a scorching sun collapses and becomes her prisoner. In a no man’s land, Patrick Mendes takes us once more to a macabre universe, where the main character, almost terrifying, manipulates her victims. (R. F.)
A tile film, made of maritime motifs and variations on the similarities and differences between two men and their desires. There is a law in economics that says that there may be many people wanting and many people offering what is desired, but for an exchange (or a date) to happen, there must be a double coincidence of wants. (João Vieira Torres)
The first time I heard of this phenomenon was in Germany. A young, classically trained violinist confessed to me that he dreamed of going to a mythical village among German youth, located in central Africa, which consisted of musicians and where djambé could be learned. Suddenly it seemed so close to me that it made a click. When I was little, in Africa, parents sent children to Germany to learn music. Now it was all upside down. And thankfully. Because things really are upside down. We Europeans don’t see them clearly. The world really has changed. And this is not new. Africa is not like we painted it. And the ones to blame are the Portuguese from the fifteenth century, who destroyed Africans documents to prove that our culture was superior to theirs. (João Viana)
Jorge Cramez’s second feature, an adaptation of a Corneille comedy, portrays a group of friends deceiving each other on a New Year’s Eve. The next morning, change comes.
A Summer house and its ghosts: De Madrugada.
The entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, Flores.
A false diary on a man’s journey that, more than just disappear, he aims to be nothing, to become nothing. Musician The Legendary Tigerman and director Pedro Maia travel the California desert in this road movie.