First Cousin Once Removed, Alan Berliner, EUA, 2013
The personal portrait of Edwin Honig (Pessoa and Cervantes translator) that Berliner draws is a look upon the loss of memory and the Alzheimer's disease. Shot through 5 years, it is an essay about the human being's fragility and the remembrance that memory has in our lives. The film is included in the SPECIAL PROGRAMME 3, an intersection between the word, the body and the relationship between filming and saying. The director will be at both screenings.
29 OUT / 21.45, Culturgest - Small Auditorium
02 NOV / 14.30, Cinema São Jorge - 3
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La Spirale (The Spiral), Armand Mattelart, Valérie Mayoux, Jacqueline Meppiel, França,
1976
Included in the Focus 1973 - 2013. THE CHILEAN MILITARY COUP D'ÉTAT: 40 YEARS LATER, this work is an analysis of the Chilean politics that describes the progression from birth to destruction of Popular Unity, the US involvment in Chilean affairs and the role they played on Allende's fall. Commentary by Chris Marker.
29 OUT / 18.45 - Culturgest - Large Auditorium
03 NOV / 21.30 - Fórum Municipal Romeu Correia
E Agora? Lembra-me (What Now? Remind Me), Joaquim Pinto, Portugal, 2013
Joaquim Pinto has been living together with HIV and HCV for almost 20 years. What Now? is the notebook of a year of clinical studies with toxic, mind altering drugs as yet unapproved. An open and ecletic reflection on time and memory, on epidemics and globalization, on survival beyond all expectations. The director will be at both screenings.
29 OUT / 21.30, Culturgest - Large Auditorium
01 NOV / 18.15, City Alvalade - 3
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Pokazatelnyy Protsess: Istoriya Pussy Riot (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer), Mike Lerner e
Maxim Pozdorovkin, Reino Unido/Rússia, 2013
The film will be preceded by the video clip Free Pussy Riot! #freepussyriot
Nadia, Masha and Katia face seven years of prison in Russia for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. As they defend their convictions from a cage inside the courtroom, those Pussy Riot members still at liberty plan new guerrilla performances. This documentary is included in the HEART BEAT section.
29 OUT / 16.30, São Jorge - Manoel de Oliveira Cinema
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A Campanha do Creoula (The Quest of the Schooner Creoula), André Valentim Almeida,
Portugal, 2013
A director boards the schooner Creoula heading for the Selvagens Islands to document the biggest Portuguese scientific expedition ever. During this journey he finds memories of the Portuguese fishing history in Newfoundland where his uncle was a captain, which leads him to the discovery of his country's past as well as his own. It is a World Premiere and the film is on the INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION. The director will be at the two screenings.
29 OUT / 18.45, São Jorge - Manoel de Oliveira Cinema
01 NOV / 15.45, Cinema City Alvalade - 3
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Salomé Lamas, Portugal, 2013
Its rotation allows us to decipher time and space, thanks to the intervals between the light beams. Without this key, in the sea there would be no time. Salomé Lamas's film will be competing on the PORTUGUESE SHORT FILM COMPETITION. Screening with the director's presence.
29 OUT / 16.45, Cinema City Alvalade -1
Where to sit at the Dinner Table?, Pedro Neves Marques, Portugal, 2013
Speculative in tone, this film-essay narrates the relationship between ecology and economics, from homeostasis to the need of growth in order for capital to expand. This cybernetic story is interrupted by tales about anthropophagous rituals in 16th century Brazil. Artwork competing on the PORTUGUESE SHORT FILM COMPETITION.
29 OUT/ 16.45, Cinema City Alvalade - 1
Flor e Eclipse (Flower and Eclipse), Marcelo Felix, Portugal, 2013
Flower and Eclipse evokes the invisibility of the plants we don't tell apart, offering a small sample of them a fleeting protagonism: the recognition of their name, the perception of their appearance, the listing of their properties and the bringing together of all these elements in an improbable story of conflict and resilience. Screening with the director's presence, included in the PORTUGUESE SHORT FILM COMPETITION.
29 OUT / 16.45, Cinema City Alvalade - 1
La Huella (The Imprint), Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, França, 2012
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. La Huella is competing on the INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION. The director will be at the two screenings.
29 OUT / 19.15, Cinema City Alvalade - 1
31 OUT / 21.15, Cinema City Alvalade - 3
Sto Lyko (To the Wolf), Aran Hughes e Christina Koutsospyrou, Grécia/França/Reino
Unido, 2012
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. Sto Lyko is on the INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION. Both directors will be at the two screenings.
29 OUT / 19.15 - Cinema City Alvalade - 1
31 OUT / 21.15 - Cinema City Alvalade - 3
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Die Zeit vergeht wie ein Brüllender Löwe (Time goes by like a Roaring Lion), Philipp
Hartmann, Alemanha, 2013
A filmmaker in the statistical middle of his life suffers from chronophobia. He has to find a way to slow down the passage of time. A personal essay film exploring the essence of time. The artwork is included in the INVESTIGATIONS unit. The director will be present in this screening.
29 OUT / 16.00, Cinema City Alvalade - 3
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Manakamana, Stephanie Spray e Pacho Velez, Nepal/EUA, 2013
Pilgrims make an ancient journey in a new cable car. Shot in gondolas high above a jungle in Nepal, this film is a portrait of technology's impact on spiritual experience, teasing out connections between the sacred and the profane in daily life. This film is in the INVESTIGATIONS section.
29 OUT / 18.30, Cinema City Alvalade - 3
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Moving Stills - Photography, Photographers and Documentary
This round table is the last step of the Retrospective MOVING STILLS, a passionate and unexpected travel through history, theory, and life, a travel through thousands of burning frozen images. All the guests will share their experience and work and will talk about what led them to try other medium to picture history, to make their autobiographies, to question the image, to archive their life and memory. Mediated by Federico Rossin.
With:
Philip Hoffman
Barbara Meter
Jean-Louis Gonnet
Kees Hin
29 OUT/ 14h, Culturgest - Forum Debates
Free admittance. Tickets must be collected on that day.
