After 14 years away from her homeland, Salomé is forced to return to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. During her stopover at Lisbon airport, Águeda a cleaning lady, recognizes Salomé as "Mila", her childhood friend. Águeda invites Salomé to leave the airport and spend the stopover at her home, with the women of her family. The neighbourhood transports her on a spiritual journey, whose destination unfurls a painful bond with her homeland.
Director
Denise Fernandes
Footage
Curta
Type
Ficção
Year
2020
Sound
5.1
Running time
18'28''
Actores / Cast
Yaya Correia, Maria Luísa Sanches, Cleo Tavares, Lourença Semedo
Argumento e Diálogos / Dialogues and Screenplay
Denise Fernandes
Fotografia / Photography
Marta Simões | Som / Sound: Miguel Moraes Cabral
Montagem / Editing
Pedro Filipe Marques | Mistura / Sound Mix: António Porém Pires
It's the last week of school but Simon is not studying for his finals. His parents got divorced and seem to be waiting for a change that never comes. Simon gets tired of waiting. Could he get a one-way ticket to the USA? Would it be possible to make objects explode from afar? What if time could be reversed? Or freedom is only to be found in movies?
Director
Marta Ribeiro
Footage
Longa
Type
Ficção
Year
2020
Release date
21/09/2020
Sound
5.1
Running time
83'56''
Guião / Script
Marta Sousa Ribeiro
Actores / Cast
Simon Langlois, Rita Martins, Mariana Achega, Bernardo Chatillon e Miguel Orrico.
Argumento e Diálogos / Dialogues and Screenplay
Marta Sousa Ribeiro
Fotografia / Photography
Guilherme Daniel, Manuel Pinho Braga e Victor Ferreira
Journey to the Sun reflects on children in situations of conflict and post-conflict, and the potency of their gaze in revealing the realities obfuscated by official narratives.
The film is based on the testimonies of former Austrian children, who were sent to Portugal in the post-war period, to a country spared the ravages of war. Using only archival imagery, Journey to the Sun establishes multiple resonances with current-day Europe, where the space for the Other has been drastically reduced.
“A Dança do Cipreste” (The Cypress Dance) springs from our interest in the immanent transformations of the body driven by dreams and desire, love and death, in their lucid and ghostly variants. Embracing the influence of imagination in the encounter with nature, it brings to light relationships of continuity and discontinuity with other beings and elements, as it follows the movements of a family circle. Mariana, Henrique, Artur and Rafael, find themselves in mutual projections and symbiotic relationships, in the days spent outdoors and in imaginary places.
Footage
Curta
Type
Ficção
Year
2020
Release date
23/07/2020
Sound
5.1
Running time
37'02''
Actores / Cast
Mariana Barrote, Henrique Ponte da Luz, Artur da Luz, Rafael da Luz
Fotografia / Photography
Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela
Música / Music
Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang
Montagem / Editing
Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela
Produtor (pessoa singular) / Producer
Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela
Financiamento / Financing
Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Fundo de Apoio ao Cinema, Fundação GDA, OOPSA
Brazil, 2017. Fernando, a bankrupt Brazilian filmmaker, grew up haunted by the violent memories of his grandfather and by the spirit of a mysterious
Mozambican man. Pushed by the nowadays cultural and political situation of his country, the filmmaker dives into a journey os misadventures
and unexpected miracles, searching for the ghosts of his family past. A melancholic tropical fairy tale.
