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
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"I went by train to the nearest town, where later I took a coach that left me, at night, in a village whose name I do not remember. I was told there was a hostel down the street. It was an old house in ruins. I entered and went to the kitchen, a long, dark room at the bottom of which was a hearth. At its foot sat an old woman. I did not feel comfortable."
And with good reason, as the school inspector is about to find out: for a sinister nobleman rules this fiefdom with terror. Will the school inspector's arrival trigger a similar chain reaction to Jonathan Harker’s at Count Dracula’s castle? The Baron is based on two works by Branquinho da Fonseca, a writer so dear to Pêra that he adapts a work of his every five years or so – the latest being Caminhos magnétykos (2018); the most enigmatic being Rio Turvo (2007).
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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
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A Dracula-esque nobleman reigns with terror over his fiefdom's commoners. Horror meets musical comedy. Disquieting political allegory.
91'
Portugal
IFFR 2019