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.
Geni by Luís Vieira Campos will world premiere at Porto Post Doc
Geni, directed by Luís Vieira Campos, will be screened on November 24th, at 19h0 in Passos Manuel, as part of the Cinema Falado section.
The Blue Apples in Goa, India
The documentary "The Blue Apples" will be the opening film of the Lusophone Film Festival of Goa.
As Maçãs Azuis by Ricardo Leite was selected for MDOC 2022
As Maçãs Azuis, by Ricardo Leite, was selected for MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival 2022, in Melgaço.
To My Parents in Porto Femme official selection
The documentary To My Parents, directed by Melanie Pereira, is in the National Competition of Porto Femme International Film Festival.