In 2020, at Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, a project was born to convert to digital the sea of Portuguese cinema. The proposal was ambitious: to restore 10,000 minutes of cinema, between features and short films, whose theme was related to the sea, a connection that is also almost a love story because of the number of eras and genres it crosses.<\/p>\n
With EEA Grants financial aid, the FILMar project has been preserving part of the Portuguese film heritage. A work that goes deep into the Cinemateca’s archives, to show us back the ways in which cinema has kept our memory throughout time. Protecting and then releasing these records that date back to 1896, allows a greater knowledge and a different understanding of our history and identity. The program has already recovered titles of filmmakers such as Leit\u00e3o de Barros or Jos\u00e9 Fonseca e Costa.<\/p>\n
Two years later, FILMar project will open the 19th edition of IndieLisboa, with Ant\u00f3nio de Macedo and Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvaro de Morais. For the first time in the festival’s history, the opening screening will show two restored copies. Albufeira<\/strong><\/a>, by Ant\u00f3nio de Macedo, is a film of the sixties, of promotional nature. It aims to encourage tourism in the Algarve town that gives the film title its name, but without escaping the authorship of the man who was one of the founders of Portuguese New Cinema. From Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvaro de Morais, Z\u00e9firo<\/strong><\/a>, or one more proof of the director’s interest in Portugal’s History. A film that crosses the Tagus River and heads towards the Algarve, moving between documentary and fiction. FILMar project will continue until April 2024.<\/p>\n