23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

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25 Canções de Abril

Presented now in 4K digitalisation by Cinemateca Portuguesa, this film captured a show at the Coliseu do Porto in 1977. In the year of the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, we go back in time to feel the weight of the artists who gave their work a political tenor and supported the revolution — like Adriano Correia de Oliveira, José Carlos Ary dos Santos and Carlos Paredes. The film includes a reading of political manifestos from the revolutionary process to date.

1977, 57'

International Competition

27

A film that illustrates (and animates) the exact notion of being 20-something and adrift in a chaotic world. To escape the daily drudgery at her parents’ house, Alice goes to a party. When she gets back, she has a bicycle accident that changes her perspective.

Flóra Anna Buda

France / Hungary

2023, 11'

International Competition

512×512

An exploration of how images composed by Artificial Intelligence can become an object of fascination, especially when we try to use them to excavate an obsession.

2023, 21'

International Competition

78 Days

It’s 1999 and NATO has invested against Serbia during the Kosovo War. But the protagonists are teenagers who deal with the threat of bombs by creating their own diary through home videos, concentrating on the things that make them still innocent, putting off the hardships of the world: mysterious boys, first kisses and intimate disappointments that mean they’re growing up too, whatever happens out there.

Emilija Gašić

2024, 85'

Retrospective Kamal Aljafari

A Fidai Film

A film that rebels against the theft of memories, especially when it comes to a country’s literary, and historical archives. Kamal Aljafari brings us the Israeli incursion into the Palestinian Research Centre in Beirut, in the summer of 1982. This example is not unique; it has been happening since 1948. When there is an occupation, there is a desire to disconnect from the past, to replace memories, to erase history. This film says “no” to that gesture.

Palestine / Germany / Qatar / Brazil / France

2024, 78'

A Traveler’s Needs

Starring Isabelle Huppert (in her third collaboration with the director), Lee Hyeyoung, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Ha Seongguk — This film follows a French woman in South Korea whose behaviour is not entirely easy for those around her to understand. Dedicated to the alcoholic drink makgeolli and entertained by playing a recorder for children, she ends up discovering a special talent for teaching a little of her language through poetry.

2024, 90'

A White White Day

A delicate and simple film that’s all about seeing beauty in every corner of the world, following a young boy on an afternoon when something changes in his family.

Russian Federation

2022, 6'

International Competition

ADE(On a Sunday)

Ade and Abu sneak out of Sunday school to go for a swim. When they are chased away from the water, they try a more adult liquid: their first sips of alcohol, as Ade sees his father do. The mischief will be discovered.

2023, 17'

All Gucci My Broski

A moment in the bathroom can spark the imagination. In this case, the contemplations of Jonny, a normal bloke trying to figure out what he wants out of life, as he stumbles through casual encounters, alcohol-fuelled outings and everything he imagines his life in a bustling metropolis should be.

2023, 14'

Director’s Cut

An American Chronicle

A film about a film that never existed. In the 1970s, Michelangelo Antonioni wrote a screenplay, entitled Two Telegrams, with the American Rudy Wurlitzer. In the 1980s, Portuguese producer Paulo Branco agreed with the director to make the film in the United States. For various reasons, the film didn’t happen. In this film, the imagination of the two directors picks up on what this unfinished project could have been.

Gouzou Alexandre, jean claude taki

2023, 66'

An Asian Ghost Story

A history of imperialism and post-war through the most innocuous object: the wig. We start with the export of hair for wigs, which was one of the biggest sources of Asian income in Mao Zedong’s China, move on to Hong Kong’s fundamental role as a trade hub and arrive at the American embargo on what they called “communist hair”, as a way of curbing Asia’s economic growth. All this is told with an unusual sense of humor.

Netherlands / Hong Kong

2023, 37'

International Competition

An odd turn

An Argentinian girl works as a guard in a museum in Buenos Aires. To pass the tedious nights, she decides to predict the future. Between the movements of the dollar, an indemnity and a new job, what happens is a new infatuation.

Francisco Lezama

Argentina / France

2024, 23'

Retrospective Kamal Aljafari

An Unusual Summer

In 2006, Kamal Aljafari’s father installed a camera facing the street in order to catch the rascal who kept damaging his car. In this attempt, he films the whole neighbourhood, the comings and goings of the neighbours, the mundane dynamics of society. After his father’s death, the director constructs a narrative through these captured images, illustrating, narrating and contextualising life in Ramla, a Palestinian district in Israel nicknamed the “ghetto”.

Palestine / Germany

2020, 80'

Retrospective MFA

And There Was No More Sea

A work commissioned by the Dutch state, this is a journey through the customs and traditions of this country and its connection to Lake IJssel, through a gaze that is both poetic and piercing.

1955, 24'

Architect A

A magical film about the power of creativity to overcome painful memories or traumas. The architect in this film builds his houses using objects from his clients’ lives. When he gives up his profession, a new client pulls him back into life.

2022, 25'

International Competition

As If It Could

When a plant isn’t growing well, you have to try to move it to a different location so that it gets more sun. This metaphor is the basis for an animation about the concept of borders and integration and what is needed for successful re-planting.

2023, 13'

Director’s Cut

Atlas Of An Amateur Cinema: Mapping the Discarded

It is estimated that around 99% of amateur cinema and home movies are lost. Cartography of the Discarded is the first episode of a series that explores what remains of this private cinema. It is an introduction to an enormous blind field in the history of cinema, a cartography of exclusion.

Luísa Homem, Inês Sapeta Dias

2023, 33'

Retrospective MFA

Attica

In 1971, inmates at the American prison of Attica revolted. In an organized effort, they managed to take control of the D-yard and took 35 hostages after numerous peaceful attempts failed when it came to reforms within the institution. The film reveals the systemic injustices and abuses of power that resulted in this historic event.

Cinda Firestone

1974, 80'

Baking With Boris

Every morning, Boris does what he loves best: he prepares the dough, bakes the bread and still has time for pastries. Nothing gives him more pleasure than seeing his confections on his customers’ tables. Until the day something terrible happens: he becomes allergic to flour!

Maša Avramović

France / Switzerland / Croatia

2024, 8'

Retrospective Kamal Aljafari

Balconies

An experimental short film that looks at all the balconies left unfinished in director Kamal Aljafari’s hometown of Ramla, in the central district of Israel. What are we to think when, to paraphrase García Lorca, our home is no longer our home?

Germany / Switzerland

2003, 13'

Battery Mommy

This battery with a keen sense of duty works at a nursery with various tasks: being inside a thermometer, being inside a camera. Until the day she’s needed like never before, because the Christmas tree has caught fire and everyone is napping.

2023, 9'

Between the Temples

A cantor in a synagogue named Ben is going through an existential crisis, but also a physical one, because the voice essential for his liturgical work is fading. But when his former schoolteacher returns to his life as a student for a future bat mitzvah, there’s a spark that ignites. An anxious but affectionate comedy starring Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly de Leon, Caroline Aaron, Robert Smigel, and Madeline Weinstein.

2024, 112'

Mouth of Madness

Birds Whose Legs Break Off

Have you always wanted to see a short film whose premise is the presentation of increasingly absurd, hilarious and rollicking ways in which birds (and others) become legless? Then this is the movie for you.

2022, 7'

International Competition

Bolero

At first, the story seems to have an if not predictable, at least classic vein, in which someone who doesn’t fit in where they used to live now has to spend time there. However, some sketches of confrontation are diluted in what becomes a literal dance of increasing hypnotic force that captures everyone’s attention, impulses, and feelings.

Nans Laborde-Jourdàa

2023, 17'