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.
Dreams of a Revolution in Festival Internacional de Cinema da Fronteira
It will be the Brazilian premiere of the film directed by Pedro Neves
Hands Cut wins the Jury Prize at the International Film Festival of Martil
The short documentary, directed by Ricardo Leite and produced by Red Desert, won the Jury Prize at the International Film Festival of Martil, Morocco.
Cold Water was selected for the Festival International du Court Métrage Lille
Cold Water / Água Fria was selected for the documentary competition at the International Festival de Court Métrage de Lille, in France.
Geni will be in Avanca Film Festival
Geni, the most recent film directed by Luis Vieira Campos, will be screened at the Avanca Film Festival today, July 25th, at 18h30, in Dolce Vita Ovar.