23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson

USA

2021, 117'

Musician and DJ (and composer and journalist, among others) Questlove signs — in his own name, as Ahmir Khalib Thompson — this documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. The festival lasted six weeks and featured performances by Stevie Wonder and Sly and the Family Stone. But it got lost in the collective memory.

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Echoes of the Red One

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2021, 137'

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Flee

An animated documentary that tells the story of Amin, who, before marrying his boyfriend, decides to reveal a secret he has been hiding for twenty years. Amin arrived in Denmark as a refugee from Afghanistan. In this movie, he deals with his traumatic past.

Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Denmark / France / Sweden / Norway

2021, 89'

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Gaza My Love

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Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser

France / Germany / Portugal / Palestine / Qatar

2020, 85'

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O Princípio, o Meio, o Fim e o Infinito

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Pedro Coquenão

2021, 30'

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Paraíso

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Sérgio Tréfaut

Portugal / France

2021, 85'

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The City of Nuno Portas

A city is a complex concept. This documentary focuses on the figure of Nuno Portas, one of the great Portuguese urban planners, who believed that an architectural project did not end at a building’s doorstep.

Humberto Kzure, Teresa Prata

2021, 80'

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Upheaval

A meeting between the artist Welket Bungué and Joacine Katar Moreira, an independent parliamentary member. The focus is on what is essential and revolutionary in their respective works. Includes paintings by plastic artist Nú Barreto and music by Mû Mbana.

Germany / Portugal / Brazil / Guinea-Bissau

2020, 27'

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Vieirarpad

A look at the intimate writing of the artist couple Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Árpád Szenes, through an exhaustive documentation of the couple’s life in the period depicted. João Mário Grilo picks up where José Álvaro de Morais left off.

João Mário Grilo

Portugal / France / Brazil

2021, 90'