In Medias Res No Meio das Coisas (In Medias Res In the Midst of Things), Luciana Fina, Portugal, 2013
SPECIAL PROGRAMME 5 // WORLD PREMIERE
"To dialogue with the vision and poetry of the architecture of Manuel Tainha implies matching not only design, space and light, but also motion, time and life. The thoughts and words by Manuel Tainha take me through the places I've filmed - works made in the 50's and 70's - that are shot today within a given moment of its existence."
31 OCT / 19.30, Culturgest - Large Auditorium
3 NOV / 16.30, Cinema City Alvalade - 1
Kutchi Vahan Pani Wala (From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf), Shaina Anand e Ashok Sukumaran
(membros do colectivo CAMP), India and Emirates, 2013
INVESTIGATION // NEW TALENT
The film is a result of four years of dialogue, friendship and exchange between CAMP and a group of sailors from the Gulf of Kutch. Their travels, and those of co-seafarers from Pakistan and Southern Iran, through the Persian and Aden Gulfs show us a world cut into many pieces. We follow the physical crossings made by these people who also make videos.
The director Shaina Anand will be at the screenings on October 28th and 31st
31 OCT / 19.30, Culturgest -Large Auditorium
8816 Versos (8816 Verses), Sofia Marques, Portugal, 2013
SPECIAL PROGRAMMES // EUROPEAN PREMIERE
It took Camões roughly 20 years to write the 8816 verses that compose Os Lusíadas. António Fonseca dedicated four years of his life to make them his own. This film documents the year that preceded the final presentation of the spoken Os Lusíadas on June 9 2012, in Guimarães, European Capital of Culture, in which Camões' verses were recited and heard.
31 OCT / 15.45, São Jorge -Manoel de Oliveira Cinema
3 NOV / 14.30, São Jorge -3
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Jai Bhim Comrade, Anand Patwardhan, India, 2012
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FEATURES-LENGTH FILMS
At Mahatma Gandhi's invitation, Bhimrao Ambedkar drafted India's Constitution. But caste discrimination proved intransigent. In 1997 an Ambedkar statue at Ramabai Colony in Mumbai was desecrated. As angry Dalits [untouchables] gathered, police opened fire, killing 10. 14 years have passed since the shots rang out at Ramabai. Jai Bhim Comrade documents them.
The director will be at the screening on October 31st and November 1st.
31 OCT / 21h, São Jorge - Manoel de Oliveira Cinema
1 NOV / 15h, Cinema City Alvalade - 1
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Pardé (Closed Curtain), Jafar Panahi e Kamboziya Partovi, Iran, 2013
NEW VISIONS
A house by the sea. The curtains are pulled shut, the windows covered with black. Inside, a man is hiding with his dog. He is writing a screenplay. Suddenly, a mysterious young woman appears. She refuses to leave, much to the writer's annoyance. But at daybreak, another arrival will flip everyone's perspective.
31 OCT / 16.30, Cinema City Alvalade -1
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Jardin des Deux Rives (Garden of Both River Banks), Amel El Kamel, France, 2013
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SHORT FILMS // INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Poetic documentary about the Union district, a vast wasteland of 80 hectares in the cross-Roubaix, Tourcoing and Wattrelos, where a male voice tells poems by Mahmoud Darwish.
The director will be at the screening on October 31st.
31 OCT / 22h, Cinema City Alvalade -1
Une Feuille dans le Vent (Leaf in the Wind), Jean-Marie Teno, France, Camaroon e Gabon, 2013
SPECIAL PROGRAMME 1
Ernest Ouandie, hero of the Cameroonian independence struggle, was executed by the Cameroonian authorities in 1971, leaving behind a daughter he never met - Ernestine. In 2004, she confided her tragic life story before my camera. Six years later, I learned that Ernestine had chosen to end her own life. This tragic news took me back to the 2004 recordings.
31 OCT / 22h, Cinema City Alvalade -1
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Anita, Luca Magi, Italy and United Kingdom, 2012
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS // NEW TALENT
Inspired by Fellini's unproduced film treatment Viaggio con Anita the movie travels along the streets of a secret Italy, on the tracks of Guido and Anita and their voyage to reach Guido's father on his deathbed. Archival images intertwine with fragments from today, and the testimony of that which was and that which might have been blend together with what is.
31 OCT / 18.45, Cinema City Alvalade - 3
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Let Us persevere in what We have resolved before We forget, Ben Russell, USA and France, 2013
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SHORT FILMS // INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
We are happy. (Silence.) What do we do now, now that we are happy? - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
31 OCT / 18.45, Cinema City Alvalade - 3
Sto Lyko (To the Wolf), Aran Hughes e Christina Koutsospyrou, Greece, France e United Kingdom, 2012
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FEATURE-LENGTH // NEW TALENT
Set over four days of unrelenting wind and rain in a remote village high up in the Nafpaktia Mountains in Greece, the film follows the lives of two shepherd families struggling for survival. Paxnis had already foreseen the dire straits the country would be facing and is slowly sinking into despair. Giorgos is weighed down by debts and drinks to forget.
The directors will be at the screenings on October 31st.
31 OCT / 21.15 - Cinema City Alvalade - 3
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La Huella (The Imprint), Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, France, 2012
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SHORT FILMS
From archival photographs that testify to years of political violence in Peru, the film builds an analytical narrative that combines the artist's memory and that of José Pablo Baraybar, head of the Peruvian team of forensic medicine.
The director will be at screening on October 31st.
31 OCT / 21.15, Cinema City Alvalade - 3
La Batalla de Chile II (The Battle of Chile: Part 2), Patricio Guzmán, Chile, France e Cuba, 1976
1973 - 2013. THE CHILEAN MILITARY COUP D'ÉTAT: 40 YEARS LATER
Between March and September 1973 left wing and right wing confront each other everywhere: on the streets, factories, courts, universities, parliament and media. Nixon sponsors the major strikes and fosters social chaos. On September 4 nearly a million people parades before Allende. A week later Pinochet bombs the Palace of the Government.
The director will be at the screening on October 31st.
31 OCT / 21.30, Fórum Municipal Romeu Correia - Almada
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Masterclass Sylvain George
Following the release of his latest film, Vers Madrid (The Burning Bright)!, at Doclisboa in 2012, Sylvain George returns to Lisbon to present excerpts of his work in a open masterclass. His works have an outstanding aesthetic and political power, and are based on the thesis by Walter Benjamin. It will be a good occasion to understand work methods and top aesthetic and plastic quality propositions through the use of small cameras and of a crew that is composed solely by the director himself (working as cameraman, editor and producer simultaneously).
31 OUT / 17h, Faculdade de Belas Artes
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone, Shane Meadows, United Kingdom, 2013
HEART BEAT
Incorporating previously unseen material spanning The Stone Roses' history, the personal experiences of many who were touched by the band and their music, and unparalleled access to the record-breaking sell-out concerts which took place in summer 2012, this is the definitive record of the definitive band of the past 25 years.
31 OCT / 23h, Lux Frágil
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