Tarrafal com International Premiere no 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.
Três documentários da Red Desert no Porto Post Doc deste ano
Os filmes As Melusinas à Margem do Rio, de Melanie Pereira, Lucefece - Where there is no vision, the people will perish, de Ricardo Leite e Time Takes a Cigarette, de Aya Koretzky, todos produzidos pela Red Desert, vão estar no Porto Post Doc 2023. O novo filme de Aya Koretzky, que fará a sua estreia mundial, será o filme de encerramento do festival.
Hospedaria ganha Prémio para Melhor Documentário no Extremadoc
O documentário Hospedaria, do português Pedro Neves, venceu ontem o Prémio Transfronteira, na X edição do festival internacional de cinema documental Extremadoc, em Cáceres, Espanha.
Sonhos de uma Revolução na Mostra de Cinema Anti-racista - Micar
Sonhos de uma Revolução, de Pedro Neves, na MICAR - Mostra de Cinema Anti-racista.
Bostofrio, où le ciel rejoint la terre no Uruguai e Moldávia
Depois de várias selecções e prémios em vários festivais internacionais, temos o prazer de anunciar que o filme Bostofrio, où le ciel rejoint la terre de Paulo Carneiro, foi selecionado para o Festival Cinematográfico del Uruguay e para o Cronograf International Documentary Film Festival, na Moldávia.