Porto Femme Sessions – Travels #17


Avenida - Café Concerto

Event Details

On May 15 we return to the screen of the Avenida – Café Concerto, in Aveiro, for another Port Femme Sessions – Travels.

This is a session held in partnership with CINANIMA Film Festival where we bring you very good animated films directed by women.

CINANIMA is an animation film festival organized by NASCENTE – Cooperative Society with Cultural Purposes, and by the Espinho City Hall. Ever since its first edition, back in 1976, it has been working continuously to promote this form of cinema and its authors. It has been considered a precursor of cultural decentralization in Portugal, as CINANIMA has won international recognition while not belonging to the main cultural centers of Lisbon or Porto.

 

GOODNIGHT

2D and 3D Computer

Italy | 2018 | 0:03:45

Direction: Caterina de Mata

Production: Caterina de Mata

 

Synopsis

People from different ethnic groups live in a house in the suburbs. At night, each one plays his music, in an attempt to overlap with others. They will learn to live together, they will have to play together.

 


FIGMENT
Paper drawing, 2D computer
Netherlands | 2018 | 0:06:35

Direction: Christina Kingma

Production: Christina Kingma

 

Synopsis
The story of a perfectionist spider who works hard at processing human images. One day, she needs to process something she has not seen in a long time.

 


HÉGÉMONIE DU VIDE

Painting, Cutouts, 2D Computer

Belgium | 2017 | 0:06:48

Direction: Maëva Jacques

Production: ENSAV La Cambre/ Atelier de Production de la Cambre

 

Synopsis

Journey to a world controlled by bird-head men completely devoid of feelings and empathy.

 


STAR FALLEN

2D Computer

Greece | 2018 | 0:02:27

Direction: Alexandra Tagali

Production: Alexandra Tagali

 

Synopsis

Two boys meet under the stars as children and grow up together. Their lives intertwine until the tragedy hits them. However, the love of the stars and one another helps them to overcome the difficultiess.

 


PURE LIFE

2D Computer

EUA | 2018 | 0:09:35

Direction: Nata Metlukh

Production: Nata Metlukh

 

Synopsis

Four friends travel to the tropics, but things go wrong …

 


ENOUGH

Puppets

United Kingdom | 2017 | 0:02:23

Direction: Anna Mantzaris

Production: The Royal College of Art

 

Synopsis

Remains of a lost self-control.

 


LAUNDROMAT

2D Computer

United Kingdom | 2018 | 0:06:11

Direction: Madeleine Sayers  

Production: Madeleine Sayers

 

Synopsis

A three-part film about a small laundry that is open 24 hours a day. As the film progresses, the viewer is confronted with the changes taking place, from morning to night. The film is a reflection of how the scenery is shaped and permeable to time and people.

 


THE HAT

2D Computer

Portugal | 0:04:50 | 2017

Direction: Alexandra Allen

Production: IPCA/ XS FILMES

 

Synopsis

A garden sweeper’s day is altered when he finds a magic hat.

 


VIOLET HUM

Drawing On Paper, Painting, Photography, 2D Computer, Real Image

United Kingdom | 2018 | 0:05:15

Direction: Anastasia Beltyukova

Production: Anastasia Beltyukova

 

Synopsis

Two brothers respond to a call from the depths of their psyche and embark on an adventure that takes them through strange and fantastic worlds. Does it?

 


300g/ m2

Cutouts, Object Animation

Estonia | 2018 | 0:05:33

Direction: Kamila Kucikova

Production: Kamila Kucikova

 

Synopsis

A monodrama of a white-white paper.

 


SOWING

Germany| 2018 | 0:07:24 Marionetas

Direction: Maryna Miliushchanka

Production: Maryna Miliushchanka

 

Synopsis

In the desolate land of the deserts of Ukraine, a young woman is shocked when her grandmother puts on the table a chicken she had just killed. Faced with death, she questions her peaceful life and ends up facing a new tragedy that will force her to abandon her treasures.

 


TANGO OF LONGING

Painting

Poland | 2018 | 0:05:22

Direction: Marta Szymanska

Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School

 

Synopsis

A film about the complex nature of tango – a unique dance of pull and push, of constant desire and search for satisfaction. Through a mixture of passion and melancholy, we can see the deepest yearnings and ambitions of the dancers.