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.
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.
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.
As Maçãs Azuis em Goa, Índia
O documentário "As Maçãs Azuis"vai ser o filme de abertura do Festival de Cinema Lusófono de Goa.
Água Fria na Competição Internacional do Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara | FICG27
Mais uma boa notícia: o Água Fria foi seleccionado para o Festival Internacional de Guadalajara, no México, um dos mais importantes festivais de cinema da América Latina!