Colo portrays a family torn apart by the economic crisis. It is a film that reflects on isolation, the difficulties of living in a big city, like Lisbon, and the common path that we, as European societies, face in these troubled times.
Secção: Special Screenings
In the second episode of the Streetscapes series we visit 22 buildings by Samuel Bickels, in Israel, the cultural center Casa do Povo in São Paulo, and the Vio Nova community through Meir Axelrod’s paintings.
In Crash, Cai’s mother, who suffer from Alzheimer’s, has disappeared.
In the last episode of the Streetscapes series we first visit three buildings by Julio Vilamajó who may have inspired Eladio Dieste whose work is the main focus of the film. Later we visit the buildings he made in Spain before he died there.
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni decides to build a replica of Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was jailed, at age 18, and re-enact what happened.
In Heimatland, a Swiss patriot, leads an ordered and happy life until the day a foreigner moves in next door.
Director Lech Kowalski returns to the neighborhoods he grew up in Utica, USA, and meets people who have been crippled by pervasive poverty and the invisible prisons of institutionalization.
Ich wär so gern so blöd wie du is the animated music video for the eponymous song by girl band Tic Tac Toe.
Told entirely in the words of James Baldwin, from his final unfinished book, Raoul Peck’s film touches on the tragic deaths of major civil rights activists to bring clarity to how the image of Blacks in America is fabricated.
While cleaning the floor of a laundry room, an old janitor comes across traces of dancing that awaken long forgotten feelings: La vuelta.
Fifteen years after her father killed himself, Petra Epperlein returns to her hometown in former East Germany to investigate his links with the Stasi and how the apparatus of state control maintained Communist rule.
Lookportraits a creature entranced by a light who manages to escape its pull and then realizes how hard it is to get the attention of those around him.
Me and my Monster tells the story of a little girl who is terribly afraid of monsters.
A homeless man lives under the arch of a bridge. One day, two eccentric sisters come by and give him food and entertain him, Les soeurs de coeur.
In the mighty jungle, the professor and his clumsy assistant make a marvellous discovery: Maggoty.
In Partition, two neighbours live an isolated existence, the wall between them constantly becomes thinner until, one day, a mysterious light flickers.
Macau’s alleys as if in a film noir, in O Cravo.
Two masseuses in Macau during the 1990s were best friends. On the eve of Macau’s handover, the girls have a fight and part ways. A film that reminisces about a period when casinos were few, and sentiments were rich.