Ponto Morto is an on the road film that suddenly, on a desert route, comes across a car accident; from then on the trip takes a whole different course.
Secção: National Competition
The valley of the river Ave has been, for more than a century, a place taken by the industry. The past decades, however, have witness its decay imposed by the globalization’s impact on production and the rise of the Asian industries. Between ruins and working factories, the film travels down the river on a journey through the shores of the present, unravelling the traces of the past.
From the photographs taken by Russell Lee in the rural America during the Great Depression, Square Dance, Los Angeles County, California, 2013 tries to recover the life and relationships of the people photographed following the emotions they raise.
In this documentary de Cláudia Alves travels to India with two friends (a Brazilian and an Indian) looking for traces of a Colonial past. There she will come across different characters and through them she’ll understand what’s left of the Portuguese presence in India and the common history of the two countries. But in each encounter she will learn a new tale, a myth, so many ways of showing an idea and a country. These are the fantastic Tales on Blindness brought to us in fragments along the journey.
A young mother tries to manage adolescence and her baby, the living memory of a first love with a not-so-happy ending. The child accompanies her everywhere: from coffee with friends to getting her nails done, confiding her life in front of the camera. With a documentary tone, this fiction transports us to her childish and hopeful universe. (Ágata Pinho)
In 1993, Paulo Seabra bought, cheap, all the assets of the photographic studio Paris, in Lisbon: tens of paper boxes, with hundreds of boxes and thousands of negatives. In this first and exclusive version for the IndieLisboa festival, the film documents the opening and discovery of much of these negatives.
2008. Qingtian, Zhejiang province, People´s Republic of China. A small rural city from where Chinese immigrate to Europe. Jin Wang Ping is a young man who’s turn to leave his home town has arrived. Faced with the prospect, and process, of emigration, he will look for other’s advice.
A young Portuguese boy and his adopted Angolan sister are departing from Lisbon for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their mother realizes they are having a secret love affair. Their father is revealed to be profiting from infrastructure development investments. They have a moral decision to made while on the field of battle.
Every year millions of tourists come to Portugal to discover the country, the people and the culture. Many come in contact with tour guides. They convey history and national identity, illustrating how we regard ourselves and how we wish to present ourselves. The film is about how this identity is built and interpreted.
A man and a woman in one room, …the sounds that arrive from outside, …the gestures, the words, the things shared, …the moods of the woman and the man, …are the nomadic edge of the nature of that relation.
Fragments of spaces and times, remains of eras and places only inhabited by memories and ghosts. Traces of things changed by time, the elements, nature and human action itself. With time, everything ceases being and possibly transforms into everything else. Places that stopped making sense, stopped being necessary and fashionable. Forgotten places, obsolete, uninhabitable, empty.
A woman arrives at an old garner and finishes up by getting involved in an obsessive relationship with a scarecrow.
They walk in pairs door to door and they enter in the houses of those who are willing to hear them. The Elders and the Sisters, young Mormon’s missionaries, they leave their country, they study another language and culture, absorbed by that spirit of mission. They aspire being examples of the perfect boys and girls.
The misadventure of an old woman obsessed with birds and her son, who thinks that can fly.
Can you keep a secret?… This Sunday will be different. We will not get into the car. Mom and dad will not argue and we will play on a garden of gigantic cabbages.
A little girl, a woman, and an old lady are all in constant movement. They live their own simple journeys that culminate together in one unique and revealing story ending.
“Muitos Dias Tem o Mês” it’s a contemporary documentary on the Portuguese society: the Portuguese life on credit. Looking at the credit’s acquisition devices, we understand his protagonists motivations. The application for credit became vulgar and consumption became democratic. We accumulate debts, everything has a price. In a country which seems to be at sale, what’s the price of our needs?
This life is lost in dust / Day by day the blossoms fall / Year by year the people go / Cold Mountain trail never ends / Even now you do not know? / The reality is asking the shadow the way.