FEMME SESSIONS #28


Maus Hábitos | Porto

Event Details

More than a month after the reopening of Maus Hábitos, FEMME SESSIONS return in July with a double session of Films at the Table.

For this #26 session, which happens on July 29th at 21h00, FEMME SESSION presents, in partnership with FILMS FEMME MÉDITERRANÉE, a three short-films program about family relationships – accomplices or conflictual.

The FILMS FEMMES MEDITERRANEE Association was founded in 2006. The annual autumn meetings bring together women filmmakers from around the Mediterranean. Its objective is the discovery of new and confirmed talents.

 

 

PROGRAM

 

BROTHERHOOD

Audience Award Hyères en Courts FFM 2019

Tunisia/Canada | 25’00’’ | Fiction | 2018

Director: Meryam Joobeur

 

 

Synopsis

A difficult return home.

Mohamed, a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons is deeply shaken by the return of his elder son Malik from Syria. Accompanied by a mysterious new wife, Malik faces the disapproving look of his father. The tension between father and son intensifies in a few days until it reaches a breaking point.


 

PILE POIL / (ON TIME)

Audience Award Hyères en Courts FFM 2019

France | 21’00’’ | Fiction | 2018

Director: Lauriane Escaffre, Yvonnick Muller

 

 

Synopsis

To the fathers, to their clumsiness and their love.

In three days, Élodie passes the hair removal test of her esthetician’s CAP. Her father, a butcher, would like her to help him more at the store. But for now, Elodie has something else in mind: she has to find a model. A model with hair to pass her exam.


 

MARLON

France | 19’00’’ | Fiction | 2017

Director: Jessica Palud

 

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Marlon visits her mother in prison for the first time since she was jailed. Protected by her family and friends, Marlon persists, despite everything, in believing that her mother is her childhood heroine.

 

 

 

*Every last Wednesday of each month, the Maus Hábitos screens thematic cinema cycles in which the common denominator is films directed by women. The aim is to give visibility to the work of women in the film industry, through the projection of their works and, whenever possible, their presence in the sessions, promoting the encounter between the public and the authors.