25 de Abril – Uma aventura para a demokracya
What has happened to the Carnation Revolution’s dreams and aspirations? Does cinema have the answer – and will we like it?
16'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Lisbon seen through an alien’s eyes, synced to verses from Álvaro de Campos (one of Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms):
"Once more I see you, / City of my horrifyingly lost childhood… / Happy and sad city, once more I dream here… / I? Is it one and the same I who lived here, and came back, / And came back again, and again, / And yet again have come back? / Or are we all the I’s that I was here or that were here – / A series of bead-beings joined together by a string of memory, / A series of dreams about me dreamed by someone outside me?
Once more I see you, / With a heart that’s more distant, a soul that’s less mine. / Once more I see you – Lisbon, the Tagus and the rest – / A useless onlooker of you and of myself, / A foreigner here like everywhere else […]"
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
An overdue tribute to one of world cinema's most unpredictable voices: Edgar Pêra, sound-image philosopher, performer, natural born rebel, eternal modernist, political satirist extraordinaire.
Read more about this programmeWhat has happened to the Carnation Revolution’s dreams and aspirations? Does cinema have the answer – and will we like it?
16'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
On the absurdities of a country riddled with economic crisis trying to look powerful and important by way of architectural grand-standing.
23'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A Dracula-esque nobleman reigns with terror over his fiefdom's commoners. Horror meets musical comedy. Disquieting political allegory.
91'
Portugal
IFFR 2019