A Janela | The Window
Portugal | Portugal | 6’48’’ | 2019
Director: Patrícia Sobreiro
Producer: Patrícia Sobreiro
Synopsis
A personal and intimate vision of a window that merges with the memory of a grandmother.
Biography
Patrícia Sobreiro was born in Lisbon, in 1975. She graduated in Fine Arts from ESAD, Caldas da Rainha. She is a Visual Artist and works in Art and Education at the Municipal Gallery of Torres Vedras. She attended the course “A Fotografia como narrativa fílmica” at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. A Janela is her first short film.
Lá Fora as Laranjas Estão a Nascer | Outside the Oranges Blooming
Portugal | Portugal | 20’00’’ | 2019
Director: Nevena Desivojević
Producer: Terratreme Filmes
Synopsis
A misty mountain range. A few mistrustful looks and a disquiet of an absolute silence. Holy chants echoing from the church while a man endures alone between the walls of his dark house. He wanders through the splendid nature, bewailing on his condition as a man doomed to serve the surroundings he has rejected.
Biography
Nevena Desivojevic – Born in Serbia. In 2016 graduates at International joint master course Doc Nomads (Lisbon, Budapest, Brussels). Editor assistant for feature documentary Campo by Tiago Hespanha
Lar Doce Escola | Home Sweet School
Portugal | Portugal | 37’40’’ | 2020
Director: Ana Luísa Oliveira, Sara Santos
Producer: Ana Luísa Oliveira
Synopsis
Rita’s life has taken a different direction from that of her older siblings and the children her mother accompanies in primary school. Rita learns outside the rules of teaching and what is often socially accepted. She learns day by day in a community of domestic education, where she studies in an unconventional way
Biography
Ana Luísa Oliveira (Portugal, 1982). A journalist for almost a decade, she has collaborated in various media, from radio to television to the written press. She is currently responsible for the educational project “Escola.Cinema. Ação” and works as a freelancer in different areas.
Sara Santos (1992), director. She has a degree in Documentary Cinema and a Masters in Audiovisual Communication. Her film Saba (2014) was awarded at the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival and Encontros de Cinema de Viana.
Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde? | Where Are You At, Teresa Villaverde?
Portugal | 17’00’’ | 2019
Director: Teresa Villaverde
Producer: Teresa Villaverde
Synopsis
In Rio de Janeiro, the inhabitants of the Mangueira neighborhood follow a television screen where the jury awards the votes to each samba school. In 2019, Mangueira brought a strong, courageous samba to the sambadrome, resisting what is happening in Brazil at the moment. The film testifies to the tension in waiting for the final result and the enormous joy of all generations in the victory of Mangueira, champion of Carnival 2019.
Biography
Teresa Villaverde began her career in cinema in the nineties, always writing the scripts for her films. All her films had world premieres in class A festivals, and commercial premieres in Portugal, which received several awards. His work has already been shown in France, Italy and Portugal.
Parto sem Dor | Painless Labour
Portugal | Portugal | 21’00’’ | 2020
Director: Maria Mire
Producer: Plataforma M
Synopsis
Teresa Villaverde began her career in cinema in the nineties, always writing the scripts for her films. All her films had world premieres in class A festivals, and commercial premieres in Portugal, which received several awards. His work has already been shown in France, Italy and Portugal.
Biography
Maria Mire. Artist and director, she has worked collaboratively in several artistic collectives. The work she has been developing is mainly focused on the issues of perception of the moving image. She is currently a teacher and co-director of the Cinema / Moving Image Department of Ar.Co, in Lisbon. She concluded a PhD in Art and Design, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, in 2016, with the following “Phantasmagorias: the moving image in the field of fine arts”.
Quando a Luz se Apaga | When the Light Goes Out
Portugal | Portugal | 5’00’’ | 2019
Director: Tânia Prates
Produção | Producer: Tânia Prates
Synopsis
Through an experimental video essay and using images from the photos of the Fotocine Fund existing in the collection of the Municipal Museum of Coruche, some aspects of the familiar reality of the mid-twentieth century in this Ribatejo region and its relation to photography are made known..
Biography
Tânia Prates currently works as a Superior Technician at the Municipality of Coruche, developing works in the areas of audiovisual and multimedia inserted in the Press, Public Relations and Image Office. She develops documentary audiovisual works on an individual and independent basis, having already made the feature Firefighters of my Land.
Raposa | Reynard
Portugal | Portugal | 40’00’’ | 2019
Director: Leonor Noivo
Producer: Terratreme Filmes
Synopsis
Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, Reynard is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta seeks in the emptiness of her body a way to arrive to her inner essence, in an abstract search of a free spirit that might end in her own enclosure.
Biography
Leonor Noivo works as script- supervisor and assistant director in fiction films and documentaries, with several directors such as João Pedro Rodrigues, João Botelho,among many others. She’s co-founder of the Cinema production company Terratreme Filmes, a filmmakers platform created in 2008, where she develops her own films and collaborates with several directors in different stages of project.
Sol Negro | Black Sun
Portugal | France | 7’00’’ | 2019
Director: Maureen Fazendeiro
Producer: ValenFna NovaF, Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar
Synopsis
Glimpses of the solar eclipse of march 20, 2015 in Lisbon. A letter from elsewhere recounts life in a distant land
Biography
Maureen Fazendeiro. In 2012, she joined Independencia (now, Norte), where she was developing the distribution of films and accompanying the publishing of books on cinema. In 2014, she concluded her first film, Motu Maeva, screened at FID Marseille and various international film festivals, museums and cinematheques, and for which she received various awards. She has been preparing her first feature-length film, As Estações.
Sou Autor do Meu Nome Mia Couto | I Am the Author of My Name Mia Couto
Portugal | Portugal | 52’00’’ | 2019
Director: Solveig Nordlund
Producer: Jacinta Barros, Rui Simões
Synopsis
A documentary overview on the life and work of the writer Mia Couto.
Biography
Solveig Nordlund was born on June 9, 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden. Director and editor known for her films Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002), Comédia Infantil (1998) and A Filha (2003
