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Aki Kaurismaki returns with this beautiful minimalist comedy-drama, the second instalment of his port cities trilogy that began with his 2011 film Le Havre. The Other Side of Hope narrates the encounter of two men who want to start a new life: a shirt salesman determined to open his own restaurant and a young refugee who arrives from Syria on a ship in search of his sister.   

Kaurismaki remains loyal to his trademark style, characterized by a sort of absurd humour and the interpretative sobriety of his actors. In this work he seems to be more interested than usual in showing present day events, shining a light on them with optimism.

“In this film I have made a conscious effort to break the European vision of refugees as pathetic victims or arrogant emigrants who invade our countries to take our job, our wife, our house and our car”, explained the director.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director in the Berlin International Film Festival in 2017, The Other Side of Hope achieves the goal that Kaurismaki sets for all of his films: that the viewers leave the cinema happier than when they came in.

The Finnish director has announced this will be his last movie. So let’s enjoy The Other Side of Hope, hoping that he will change his mind, because the world really needs work like Kaurismaki´s!  

 

2017

- Festival de Berlim:  

Urso de Prata Melhor Realizador

- Festival de Munique:

Melhor Realizador Internacional

- Festival de San Sebastián:

FIPRESCI Filme do Ano

- Luxembourg City Film Festival:

Grande Prémio

- Prémios do Cinema Europeu:

Nomeado Melhor Filme e Melhor Realizador

In a predominantly male world like the one portrayed in Westerns, a German worker who doesn’t want to feel isolated like the rest of his fellow countrymen in the Bulgarian mountains decides to walk to the village to make friends with its inhabitants.
The German filmmaker, Valeska Grisebach, translates the cinema codes from  Westerns into the values of modern Europe. Her long film is full of elements that take us back to the Western genre: horses, foreigners, native people, rivers...However, it does differ from that genre in its portrayal of the romantic feeling of communion with nature. Grisebach had not directed a film for 11 years. And there was an obvious expectation, as her last film, Sehnsucht, left everybody waiting for more and won awards in several international festivals.
Western presents us a village, that like many other communities, shows a certain hostility toward newcomers. In spite of that, Grisebach defends small villages as places set outside the rat-race of urban life, where time has an evanescent nature and people appreciate the simple and truly important things in life. Don’t miss it!

2018 
-Adquirido pela Colecção MoMA New York
-Prémio de Cinema Alemão: 
Nomeado Melhor Filme
-Associação de Críticos Alemães de Cinema:
Melhor filme e Melhor Actor

2017
 -Festival de Cannes:
 Secção Oficial “Un Certain Regard” 
-Festival de Cinema Europeu de Sevilha:
 Prémio do Júri 
-Festival Internacional de Cinema de Mar del Plata:
 Melhor Realizador
-Art Film Festival:
 Melhor Realizador
 

“Em 1910, vários turistas começam a desaparecer das praias à volta do Canal da Mancha, em França. A polícia é chamada a intervir e percebe que uma baía está no centro de tudo. E está tudo ligado a uma estranha família burguesa que passa férias na zona e não se cruza com ninguém. Nomeada para a Palma de Ouro em Cannes, uma comédia do francês Bruno Dumont, cujo último trabalho tinha sido a minissérie/filme "O Pequeno Quinquin". Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrice Luchini, Brandon Lavieville e Raph dão vida às personagens.”(PÚBLICO)

2016: Festival de Cannes - Selecção Oficial
2016: Prêmios César: 9 Nomeações: Melhor filme,
melhor realizador e melhor actor (Luchini)
2016: Festival de Sevilla: Giraldillo de ouro: Melhor filme e actirz

“Um filme de amigos sem os amigos. Em pleno mar Egeu, num iate de luxo, seis homens, numa viagem de pesca, decidem jogar um jogo. Durante o jogo, comparar-se-ão coisas. Medir-se-ão coisas. Estraçalhar-se-ão canções e testar-se-á sangue. Amigos tornar-se-ão rivais e rivais ficarão famintos. Mas, no final da viagem, quando o jogo tiver acabado, o homem que vencer será o melhor homem. E ostentará, no mindinho, o anel com timbre vitorioso: o “Chevalier”.”  (Alambique)
 

 

“Tímida e com alguns problemas de socialização, a professora Géquil é desprezada tanto pelos alunos como pelos colegas de trabalho. Mas tudo se transforma quando, numa noite de tempestade, é subitamente atingida por um raio. Ao voltar a si depois do incidente, sente-se uma mulher nova. No dia seguinte, já na escola secundária onde lecciona, todos vão reparar na grande mudança, pois ela vai mostrar-se bastante mais resoluta e agressiva na sua forma de abordagem. O que ninguém sabe é que ela agora tem um superego com poderes misteriosos e que tenciona servir-se deles para se vingar de anos e anos de maus-tratos…
Uma comédia escrita e realizada por Serge Bozon ("La France", "Tip Top") que se baseia vagamente no clássico escrito por Robert Louis Stevenson. Com Isabelle Huppert como protagonista, o filme conta também com Romain Duris, José Garcia, Adda Senani, Guillaume Verdier, Patricia Barzyk, Pierre Léon e Jamel Barbouche.” (PÚBLICO)

2017- Festival de Locarno - Melhor Actriz

 

 

Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths (Locarno Festival).

Not only does 1913's The Student of Prague offer an entertaining example of independent film from an era before even Hollywood had become Hollywood, it has a place in history as the first independent film ever released. German writer Hanns Heinz Ewers and Danish director Stellan Rye (not to mention star Paul Wegener, he of the Golem trilogy) collaborated to bring to early cinematic life this 19th-century horror story of the titular student, a down-at-the-heels bon vivant who, besotted with a countess and determined to win her by any means necessary, makes a deal with a devilish sorcerer that will fulfill his every desire. The catch? He summons the student's reflection out of the mirror and into reality. So empowered, this doppelgänger goes around wreaking havoc. Hardly the ostensibly high-minded material of "indie film" — let alone "foreign film" — from the past half-century or so, but The Student of Prague treats it with respect, arriving at the kind of uncompromising ending that might surprise even modern audiences. If you don't watch it today, keep it bookmarked for Halloween viewing.

The Florida Project tells the story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times. 

Óscar - Nomeação Melhor Actor Secundário
Globo de Ouro - Nomeação Melhor Actor Secundário
Quinzena dos Realizadores – Estreia Mundial
Festival de Toronto – Selecção Oficial