FEMME SESSIONS | AVENIDA CAFÉ CONCERTO #15


Avenida Café - Concerto

Event Details

Session # 15 is also dedicated to oriental cinema.

This is a special session in partnership with Shortcutz Porto, marked by the absence of film programmer, Fernanda Ramone, who unfortunately left us too soon …

Fernanda Ramone was a synologist, journalist, creator and programmer of the film festivals: DocBrazil Festival and FestYin -China Feminine Festival.

The cinema has the power to rescue memories and through the films she chose, Fernanda will be present somehow at this session. “Daughters of China”, by the journalist Vera Penêda and “Pioneers: Chinese Female Artists”, by the director Zhong Zhihao, are the films that she made us arrive.

Porto Femme also participated in the curation of this session with the films “June Lily” by Tan Yuehan and “Shadow” by Lei Lei.

 

PROGRAM

 

DAUGHTERS OF CHINA

China | 10’00’’ | Documentary | 2013 | Portuguese subtitles

Journalist Vera Penêda

 

Synopsis

A woman who grew up in China during the Japanese occupation (1931-1941) and who never had a dream; the daughter, who wanted to be a soldier, but who was selected to work as a saleswoman during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976); and her granddaughter, an only child, born in China in the 1980s, a cabaret and burlesque dancer, indifferent to the “leftover women” label, imposed by Chinese society because she was still single at the age of 27.

Three generations of Chinese women talk about childhood, love, marriage, work and dreams, describing how life has changed dramatically for women in China over a century.


 

JUNE LILY

China | 5’06’’ | Animation | 2018

Director: Tan Yuehan

Production: Hong Kong Baptist University

 

Synopsis

The scene behind that toilet door still appeared in her nightmare over and over. She tried to cut her hair to erase the bad memories but failed.

The young girls were still struggling in their respective dilemmas. However, the June lily finally withered and fell.

Facing the horrible male power and destruction of both body and mind, she chose to escape or….


 

SHADOW

China | 5’32’’ | 2017

Director: Lei Lei

Production: Lei Lei

 

Synopsis

This animation gives an account of the injuries inflicted on a girl after she was followed and sexually harassed by combining oil painting and photography.


 

PIONEERS: CHINESE FEMINIST ARTISTS

China | 21’08’’ | Documentary | 2017 | English subtitles

Director: Sean Zhong Zhihao.

 

Synopsis

A group of artists tries to make a difference through their work to expand their knowledge of feminism with powerful visual impact. In addition to paintings and sculptures, these women also create performance art, produce films, theater and write articles in China’s modern era. They are pioneers in a conservative society. Each has a unique view of the quest for gender equality in a harmonious society. This film is the result of a year-end project by young filmmaker Sean ZHONG Zhihao.

 

 

*Every second Wednesday of each month, the Avenida Café-Concerto 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.