NATIONAL SHORT FILMS 2022
Blindman's Buff | Cabra Cega
Portugal | 16’00’’ | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Tomás Paula Marques
Elenco | Cast: Francisca Silva, Gaspar Menezes, Eluisa Muambi
Produção | Production: Patricia Silva, Cristiana Cruz Forte, Tomás Paula Marques
Sinopse
Gabi acredita na sua capacidade de agir perante momentos de injustiça. Ao descobrir que o seu irmão, Daniel, está a ser intimidado por um grupo de rapazes da vizinhança. Ao tentar vingá-lo, apercebe-se de que talvez os eventos que estão a acontecer ao seu irmão são um teste dos fantasmas do passado.
Biography
Born in Porto (Portugal) in 1994, Tomás Paula Marques studied Directing in Lisbon Theatre and Film School. She worked in editing with directors like João Pedro Rodrigues, Cristiana Cruz Forte and Daniel Veloso. She is currently finishing a Master's degree in Filmmaking at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola and developing her first feature film.
Blue Has No Dimensions | Azul
Portugal | 19’45’’ | 2022
Realizadora | Director: Ágata de Pinho
Elenco | Cast: Ágata de Pinho, Diana Sá, Maria Gil, Maria Alice de Pinho, Íris
Produção | Production: Ágata de Pinho, Filipa Reis / Uma Pedra no Sapato
Synopsis
Ara had always believed she would disappear at twenty-eight years old. With that birthday approaching, she pursues the most basic feelings of existence in the water, the sun and the sublime. The state of trance is a wholesome place, alien-like, pervaded by invisible forces. When Ara realizes where her belief came from, she's propelled to catharsis: does she disappear?
Biography
Ágata de Pinho was born in Porto in 1989 and for the past decade of her life has been bound to theatre and film. Recently, in film, besides continuing her work as an actor in short and feature films, Ágata has been devoting more time to writing and creating.
Meek | Mansa
Portugal | 22’00’’ | 2021
Realizadora | Director: Mariana Bártolo
Elenco | Cast: Filipa Gonçalves, Morgana Moutinho, Daniel Silva, Diana Sá, Pedro Frias
Produção | Production: Mariana Bártolo, Thalita Araújo
Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Maria João lives in a suburb in the north of Portugal in the year 2000. She is exposed to the influences of her conservative upbringing. Her relationship with her family and her best friend are changing. A newly discovered sensuality and desire lead her to new body sensations and interests.
Biography
Mariana Bártolo (Porto, 1987) lives between Germany and Portugal. She is a filmmaker, performer and multimedia artist. She has been involved in various productions, mainly associated with performance and documentary, and has developed projects in the areas of photography, installation and design at the same time.
Tchau tchau | Tchau tchau
Portugal, França | Portugal, France | 18’24’’ | 2021
Realizadora | Director: Cristèle Alves Meira
Elenco | Cast: Lua Michel David Meira Cristèle Alves Meira Sancho Elmano Saul Michel
Produção | Production: François-Pierre Clavel, Kidam
Synopsis
At a time when it is forbidden to get together to bury our dead, a little girl separated by an ocean from her grandfather invents a way to say goodbye to him.
Biography
As a trained actress, Cristèle Alves Meira began her career as a theater director. After her first two documentaries shot in Cape Verde and Angola, she directed two short fiction filmed in her mother's village in Tras-os-Montes.
The Days In Our Life | Às vezes os dias, Às vezes a vida
Portugal | 26'00" | 2022
Realizadora | Director: Janine Gonçalves
Elenco | Cast: Kim Ostrowskij
Produção | Production: Janine Gonçalves, Tomás Barão da Cunha, Maria Lopes, Waves Of Youth
Synopsis
Lena has two jobs. She’s a baker at dawn and works in a supermarket during the day. At night, she takes care of her daughter. What remains in between? A mourning woman trying to reinvent herself on her way. A sharp portrait of a mother who forgot that she’s also a woman, in another day of her life.
Biography
Janine Gonçalves is a Portuguese screenwriter and director who explores the boundaries between fiction and reality. She is drawn to the human condition and her films are about people and their events.
The Knight Wind | Cavaleiro Vento
Portugal | 28’00’’ | 2022
Realizadora | Director: Margarida Gil
Elenco | Cast: André Almeida e Sousa, Ana Aleixo Lopes, António Melo Antunes Almeida e Sousa, Helena Ávila, Tomás Azevedo, José Duarte Chicau Lopes, Max
Produção | Production: Margarida Gil, Joaquina Chicau
Synopsis
Beneath the island's splendor moves a continuous cycle of violence. A child who arrives on the island and sees a sperm whale fly over Pico. A child who dreams of themselves as a baby on their mother's lap under the dragon trees. A man who pursues dogs that kill his sheep. The woman does not know how to look for science to cure her child. The dog that sees The Passion just like the volcano that didn't go extinct. Against this, only in the eyes of the dog and the child there is a promise of the future.
Biography
Margarida Gil (Portugal, Covilhã, 07/09/1950) graduated in Germanic Philology. In 1976, she participated in the creation of Grupo Zero, a film production cooperative, with Alberto Seixas Santos, Solveig Nordlund, João César Monteiro, Jorge Silva Melo and Acácio de Almeida, among others. She has been a contributor to RTP since 1975, where she has already signed several documentaries. She was also the president of the Portuguese Directors Association.
The Left Behind | As Sacrificadas
Portugal, Suiça | Portugal, Switzerland | 21’37’’ | 2022
Realizadora | Director: Aurélie Oliveira Pernet
Elenco | Cast: Tânia Alves, Adriano Luz, Francisco Nascimento, Maria João Vaz, Valerie Braddell
Produção | Production: Gabriela Bussmann, Yan Decoppet, GoldenEggProduction, Pedro Fernandes Duartes, Primeira Idade
Synopsis
In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother alone. Stunned by this suffocating daily life, the flames awaken in her solitude, despair, and the desire to escape.
Biography
Born in 1990, Aurélie Oliveira Pernet first trained in graphic design before undertaking a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema at HEAD - Geneva. Graduating with a Master’s degree in History and Aesthetics of Cinema from UNIL in 2019, she has since been developing her film projects. She is currently writing her first feature film.
The Shift | The Shift
Portugal, Reino Unido | Portugal, United Kingdom | 09’01’’ | 2020
Realizadora|Director: Laura Carreira
Elenco | Cast: Anna Russell-Martin
Produção | Production: Maeve McMahon, Mhairi Valentine / MTP
Synopsis
Anna, an agency worker, searching through the discounted items, Anna wanders through the supermarket. As her groceries edge towards the checkout, her agency calls; she has lost her shift. The Shift aims to capture the vulnerable condition of a temporary worker and to reveal the immediate consequences of the dangerously short and ever-present distance separating employment and poverty, security and tumult.
Biography
Laura Carreira (born in Porto, 1994) is a Portuguese filmmaker based in Scotland. She completed an Audiovisual Communication Degree at the António Arroio School of Arts in Lisbon and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Film Directing at the University of Edinburgh. Her first film Red Hill was selected for various film festivals internationally and considered one of the best seven films at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival by the International Film Magazine Sight & Sound.
