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Time Takes a Cigarette

2023

In the late 70s and early 80s in the city of Porto, concerts by Rock and Punk bands began to appear. April 25, 1974, which put an end to the longest dictatorship in Europe, brought political and creative freedom. Nightclubs such as Griffon’s or Lá Lá Lá opened, which boosted musical culture in Portugal.

Through a series of tableaux vivants based on photographs of the time, whose models are the young people of today's Porto, the film tells, in the first person, small personal stories of those who were at the heart of that time.

By  Aya Koretzky
Documentary
2023
Portugal / 33 min.
Color, 4K, 16:9, Sound 5.1 DCP, ProRes

Festivals

Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival - International Premiere, Greece, 2024.
Porto Post Doc - Closing Session, Portugal, 2023.

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Credits

Written and Direction

Aya Koretzky

With

Pedro Khron, Carlos Moura, Fernanda Gonçalves, Bernardo Queiroz and Guilherme Lucas

Cinematography

Pedro Neves

Editing

Tomás Baltazar

Sound Director

Ricardo Leite

Sound Mix

Maurício D’Orey

Gimbal

João Calheiros

Photographs

Guilherme Lucas, Pedro Khron and Fernanda Gonçalves

Music

Os Cães, a Morte e o Desejo, Cães Vadios and Guru Paraplégico e os Iconoclastas

Production Director

Pedro Caiano

Assistant Production

Melanie Pereira

Producer

Pedro Neves

Production

Red Desert

Support

red desert films logo ppdoc logo filmaporto logo Porto logo AaN Logo Centro Criatividade Digital logo UCP EA logo

Director’s notes

Time Takes a Cigarette

By  Aya Koretzky
Portugal
Color, 4K, 16:9, Sound 5.1 DCP, ProRes