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.
Hospedaria na Competição Internacional do Filmets
O Filme Hospedaria, de Pedro Neves, está na Competição Internacional do Festival Internacional de Curtas-metragens Filmets, em Badalona.
Geni de Luís Vieira Campos com estreia mundial no Porto Post Doc
O filme de Luís Vieira Campos, com produção da Red Desert, vai ter estreia mundial no Festival Porto Post Doc, secção Cinema Falado, no dia 24 de Novembro no cinema Passos Manuel às 19h00.
Água Fria no Festival Short Shorts no México
O Filme Água Fria vai estar na Competição Oficial do Festival de Curtas Short Shorts, no México. É a segunda vez que o documentário vai estar num festival mexicano. A primeira foi no Festival Internacional de Guadalajara.
Sonhos de uma Revolução no Brasil
O filme Sonhos de uma Revolução, de Pedro Neves, foi seleccionado para o Festival Cinema de Fronteira IFF.