The 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition inspired, twenty-two years later, four friends to build a raft that lead them down the Portuguese rivers Zêzere and Tagus, from the mouth of Ribeira Sertã to Lisbon. That summer of 1969 was mentioned in an important vespertine newspaper and now, forty years later, the son of one of the adventurers wrote a book of poems that links the description of the trip to characters of travel literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The film is a documentary-like performance, a recital on the water that puts the poem into practice, in a whole new journey.
The Imperfect Cradle, Fábio spends his days at home writing in his crib and his friendship with Catarina will be put to the test as he works on his novel.
Their family life aside, Fernanda, Sylvia and Anna spend 16 hours a day working as waitresses in a restaurant, situated in the Lisbon docks. In the crisis-hit landscape they fight to keep their jobs, as men abandon work to go on strike.
Azulejos represents Lisbon before the earthquake of 1755, a poem by Pessoa, an air guitar by Mario Trovador, a bird that flies … a poetic look at Portugal today.
With Jeff tells the story of Nydia, whose dull life is interrupted when she accepts a ride on a motorbike with Jeff.
The wits and wisdom of Martin Borges, an old domino and snooker player, who is also a full time philosopher. We are discovering a place out of time, where he is inviting us in a meditation about happiness and loneliness, life and death.
My intention was to walk with a small team through Manuel Vicente’s Macau and this promenade full of quirks, food, words and laughter, makes the man appear. Little by little, we find the traits that characterize the architecture of Macau. An oriental place with Portuguese features or a Portuguese with oriental traits. A place that we wanted to rediscover in this documentary, from the events that triggered Manuel Vicente in that territory. Walking and wandering around town with him, as a flannêur, we discover his architectural work, geometrically very pronounced in external lines, his brand in the urban landscape. (Rosa Cabral)
