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At the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest is sent to a remote part of Iceland. The deeper he travels into the Icelandic landscape, the more he loses a sense of his own reality, his mission and his sense of duty. Very splendid transcendental western!

 

Festival de San Sebastián (2022) - Prémio Zabaltegi-Tabakalera 

Festival de Londres (2022) - Melhor filme, Menção Honrosa

 

Against Eva’s wishes, her mother wants to renovate the house and get rid of the cat, which, disoriented since the divorce, pees everywhere. Eva wants to go and live with her dad, who, disoriented like the cat, is experiencing a second adolescence. As if crossing an ocean of adults without knowing how to swim, Eva will have to learn how to deal with her father. Valentina Maurel’s first feature film, which shows us an urban middle-class Costa Rica, not at all exoticised. 

 

Festival de San Sebastián (2022) – Prémio Horizontes, Melhor Filme latinoamericano 

Festival de Locarno (2022) – Melhor Realizador, Melhor actriz e Melhor actor 

 

On the border between Iran and Turkey, Panahi, as himself but also as a character, is directing a film from a distance. Some kilometers away, his team films an Iranian exiled couple. Meanwhile in the village he is staying, a story of a secret passion is also revealed. Between fiction and reality, this incredible film, which questions the nature of cinema, portrays two parallel love stories. In both, the lovers are disturbed by different and invisible obstacles, superstition and the mechanics of power.

 

Festival de Veneza (2022) - Prémio Especial do Júri 

Festival de Valladolid (2022) - Prémio Melhor Filme 

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. For Onoda, the war will end 10.000 nights later. It is a stunning contemporary classic! 

 

Prémios César (2022) – Melhor Argumento Original 

Festival de Cannes (2021) - Un Certain Regard 

Festival de Sevilla (2021) – Prémio Especial do Júri e Melhor Argumento 

 

ANNIE ERNAUX, OS ANOS SUPER 8

Super 8 films of Annie Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981, made by the most recent Nobel Prize winner for Literature with her son, is a testimony to the political and social changes in French society after May 68. 

Prémios César (2022) – Nomeado a Melhor Documentário Cannes (2022) – Quinzena de Realizadores 

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O ACONTECIMENTO

An adaptation of Nobel Prize winner (2022) Annie Ernaux’s eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s. 

 

Festival de Veneza (2021) - Leão de Ouro, Prémio FIPRESCI 

Prémios Golden Tomato (2022) – Melhor Filme de Estreia Limitada, Melhor Drama, Melhor Filme de Língua Estrangeira 

Rural Ireland. 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. Based on Foster by Irish author Claire Keegan, An Cailín Ciúin, the original Irish title, is the first Irish language title to be selected at the Berlinale and was one of the titles that most surprised both audiences and critics. 

 

Prémios do Cinema Europeu (2022) - Melhor Fotografia 

Festival de Berlim(2022) – Generation Kplus, Urso de Cristal ao Melhor Filme 

 

Scathing and hilarious film about the issue of self-image in today’s society. Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist. In response, Signe makes a desperate attempt to regain her status by creating a new persona hell-bent on attracting attention and sympathy.

 

Festival de Cannes (2022) – Un Certain Regard, Nomeado a Melhor Filme 

Festival Internacional de Valladolid (2022) – Prémio Punto de Encuentro, Melhor Filme. Prémio Júri Jovem, Menção Especial. Kristoffer Borgli.

 

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. When her friend Cloé arrives from Canada, bringing with her the glowing days of youth, Ana embarks on a journey that will take her beyond the horizon. Filled with desire and freedom, the light of Wolf and Dog will reveal to Ana the right sea for her to sail. After her poetic Ama-san and Amor Fati, Claudia Varejão presents us with this beautiful feature film which, more than a simple cinematographic object, is a transformative orchestral experience.

 

Festival de Veneza (2022) – Melhor Filme Giornate Degli Autori Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (2022) – Prémio Young Audience 

Festival de Cinema de Madrid (2022) – Melhor realização, Menção especial do Júri 

 

Considered one of the founding films of the Portuguese movement, Novo Cinema, it was the first feature film directed by Paulo Rocha. It is a film that evokes themes and problems that are still very relevant today, particularly with regard to the problem of housing and macho violence. A performance that opens with experimentation, putting the images of the film in dialogue with a new text, written and read live by Bruno Humberto and Candela Varas, with the music of Carlos Paredes, transcribed to the harpsichord by Joana Bagulho.

 

Festival Internacional de Cinema de Locarno (1964) – Prémio Vela de Prata, Melhor Primeira Obra 

 

 

Documentary with unpublished archive images that portrays in an intimate way the life of Cesária Évora, “Diva dos Pés Descalços. Following her in her daily life, in her Cape Verdean home, and in her professional life, in dressing rooms all over the world. Her voice took her from Cape Verde to international stardom, but her only dream was to have a house.

 

Indie Lisboa (2022) – Prémio do Público Prémios Sophia (2023) - Melhor Documentário 

 

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O Homem do Lixo

Realização: Laura Gonçalves 

Animação/PT/2022/11 min 50 segundos 

V.O. Português/English Subtitles 

 

Óscares (2023) – Competição Curta-metragem de Animação 

 

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Água Mole

Realização: Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires 

Animação/PT/2017/9 min 15 segundos

V.O. Português/English Subtitles