A seventy year old aesthete is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extremes, to a collector’s exoticism.
Secção: National Competition
“October is Over” deals with film heritage through the eyes of a very young film director and its parents.)
“On the Side” is a new look by Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra on Lisbon suburban life.)
A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. …But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence… R. M. Rilke
Dominicu is a vision of the post. Post-purchase, post-sale, post-bargaining… It’s the mirror of countless markets which traditionally inhabit many places all over Portugal and it’s inevitably a mirror of those who transit on them. A short documentary film which transfuses the common knowledge that one has of the Relógio Market in Chelas, and that ends up by showing the way in which many humans face their environment.
It happened by accident. We started to collect footage for Conjunto Ngonguenha’s videoclip and ended up with 13 tapes of material. So we’ve decided to illustrate the whole album. This kind of documentary is a tribute to an Angolan hip hop group called Conjunto Ngonguenha and all the other artists from Angola who were able to find inspiration out of the adversities of everyday life and contribute to the creation of a new Angolan identity. “
On holiday in his summer house, Jorge, a still young but well to do lawyer who suffers from diabetes, tells Filipa, his wife and formerly his nurse, that he wants to divorce her. Next day, three persons arrive: Tiago, an old friend and now a writer, who is actually having an affair with Filipa; Sara, Tiago’s sister; and Francisca, who is actually having an affair with Jorge. That few days are not exactly harmonious and happy.
“The Eyes of André” is a fictional reenactment of a true family story in Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal, through the eyes of a young boy.)
Candidiasis is a parable about two girls, Candida and Serena, with different expectations concerning their relationship.
Candide never loved her. Manipulation is his favourite game.
“The Mesh and the Circle” creates its own sensorial land by editing together an empirical study on manual labor.)
Catarina Mourão has become one of the most delicate filmmakers in Portuguese cinema. The director now presents a portrait of another figure in Portuguese cultural history: her grandfather and writer Tomaz de Figueiredo. A film that gently unveils a family separated by his death through stories written in a country controlled by the fascist dictatorship. )
“Trials, Exorcisms” offers a documentary influence on a fictional story about unemployment in Portugal.)
Urban chaos is a defining trait of Portuguese cities. Is the city, as we know it today, an endangered model? As an answer to the challenge of thinking through filming, I made this film: a guided tour of three totally different houses. This short film doesn’t give answers, but it reveals illusions that grow upon wreckage.
In a possible futuristic scenario of mayhem and chaos, when sweet water is the most rare and valuable asset, a scientist builds human-looking androids with the purpose of telling the survivors, one hundred-years after a nuclear holocaust, the tale of the human race.
He’s even able to foresee the fall and of feeling in his skin the profound ruts dug out in the ground. In the same way he can know when a nurse is looking at him even with his eyes closed. He knows that by following that track and once down there, he would only find iron and flesh melted into one. He knows that if he can’t spread his arm into the abyss and ransom his mother from there, he can only immerse himself in that underground he has privileged access to because he doesn’t know anything else. Lonely yet unwillingly communicant ‚ the zone greets, the zone liberates.
In a journey between Viseu and Lisboa, Jorge Silva Melo rebuilds for the actor Pedro Gil his relationship with Álvaro Lapa, the interviews he filmed with the artist, the years he passed watching the growth of one of the most peculiar works in the Portuguese art scene. And the question: what is literature? A long journey of initiation, reviewing all the pictorial and literary work and ending with Álvaro Lapa’s declaration: Available, available is youth. Even if it is incapable, destructive. But it’s available.
The story of a group of individuals coming from different realities, who reveal their personal aspirations and pathways through a common instrument ‚ the Ads newspaper. To register the encounters made possible by the ads in order to reveal the interest, they raise and the needs they create.