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In São Jorge Cinema, Sala Manoel de Oliveira receives the Opening Ceremony, with the screening of Dark Horse by Todd Solondz, at 9.30 pm. Abe, the protagonist, is a man-child. He still lives with his parents, works without any enthusiasm in his father’s company of his father and spends too much time on eBay looking for old toys. Less acidic than his previous satires (Happiness, Life During Wartime) about the life of the average American, Dark Horse is also fun and offers a different perspective.
Honoured in the Independent Hero section Independent in IndieLisboa’09, Werner Herzog is back with his latest work, a documentary that through conversations with the baby-faced killer Michael Perry, days before his death sentence, and all who were affected by the crimes he committed – the families and relatives of the victims – leads us to reflect on the act of killing. Into the Abyss is the 26th of April at 21h30 in the Grand Auditorium of Culturgest.
The Small Auditorium receives the session International Short Competition 1, at 9.45 pm. The Director’s Cut Short session takes place at Cinema São Jorge, Screening Room 3, at 21.30, and presents Projet Kubrick by Olivier Jagut, Il était une fois … Orange Mecanique by Antoine de Gaudemar, I’m Not the Enemy by Björn Melhus, which appropriates dialogues of Hollywood films that deal with the legacy of the Vietnam war and transports it to Germany’s quiet suburbs, and CONFERENCE notes on film 05 by Norbert Pfaffenbichler.
In Cinema Londres, Screening Room 1, 9.30 pm, two films by director Ai Weiwei will be screened: Ordos 100 and So Sorry. In Screening Room 2 the session World Pulse Shorts 1 will take place at 9.15 pm.