Tarrafal will have International premiere in CPH:DOX
Decades of conflict, gang dominance and violent clashes with the police have taken their toll on bodies, faces and buildings in S. João de Deus – a neighbourhood on the wrong side of the train tracks in the part of Porto where tourists never go.
But the residents of the dilapidated neighbourhood have defended their homes and special community for just as long.
Pedro Neves continues and renews the Portuguese tradition of investigating the origins of melancholy in madness, and has created his very own variation of hard and dark social realism with an almost supernatural edge of something threatening and inexplicable. An atmosphere, which has a historical foundation in grainy VHS images of hot-tempered women who swear at the police from the windows of a dilapidated apartment block, but which in today’s moment meet us like a silent and bare-chested man on horseback. If ‘gentrification blues’ was a genre, ‘Tarrafal’ would be the sound of a hoarse voice singing at night. And as a film, it is an unmistakably Portuguese and strangely haunting experience.
Above our Means in "Público" newspaper, by Jorge Mourinha
Jorge Mourinha, film critic from "Público", writes about the filme Acima das Nossas Possibilidades - Above Our Means. The world premiere was in Porto Post Doc.
Tarrafal at SACO
The film Tarrafal, directed by Pedro Neves, will be shown at the Semana del Audiovisual Contemporáneo de Oviedo (SACO) in Asturias, Spain.
The Melusinas at the Edge of the River has been selected for the Official Competition of M-DOC
The documentary “The Melusinas at the Edge of the River”, by Melanie Pereira and produced by Red Desert, has been selected for the Official Competition of the Melgaço International Documentary Festival, M-DOC. It is one of the contenders for Best Portuguese Documentary.
Inn won the Best Documentary in Extremadoc
Our short film Inn / Hospedaria, directed by Pedro Neves, won the Best Documentary award in the "Transfrontera" category at the International Documentary Film Festival Extremadoc in Caceres, Spain.