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
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
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
Father cracks when daughter marries some shady entrepreneur. A grimly funny, audio-visually dazzling science fiction romp about 'kontemporary' fascism.
87'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A noir documentary about architect Cassiano Branco; or: Where has the promise of Modernism gone, and what could have happened to Lisbon?
26'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Let images and sounds like those of Dziga Vertov and Terry Gilliam and Walerian Borowczyk cross-pollinate and grow wondrous AV-flowers.
2'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Only a true football fan like Pêra could make a film so in awe of the supporter’s spectacle – and so mystified by it.
41'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
What happens when the testimonies of maimed Colonial War veterans meet the visual universe of Marvel comics?
17'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A multifaceted tribute to polymath Alberto Pimenta: poet, translator (Thomas Bernhard, among others), performer/performance artist, provocateur, porn proselytiser, political dissenter.
75'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Two funerals, one soundtrack: suddenly, Ioannes Paul PP.II unexpectedly had a lot in common with Communist politician Álvaro Cunhal.
8'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
One Don Juan – six actors; and his six lovers – one actress. Lots of strange things are happening along the Bica funicular.
87'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Will Lissabon be a Garden of Earthly Delights 81 years from now? This revised version of Pêra’s animation classic provides unexpected (in)sights.
9'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A 3D fantasy about Lisbon, set to Fernando Pessoa: I sleep fitfully and live in the fitful dream-state / of a fitful sleeper, half dreaming.
66'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
An 'ekstatic' celebration of Lovecraftian visions, darkly improvised with live music by Randolph Carter and wild VJing of Pêra-visions by Claudio Vasques.
55'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A part expressionist, part surrealist comedy in which Portuguese stock comedy characters loftily discuss the relativity of time and space. Mind-expanding!
50'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Portugal’s latest entry in the international sub-genre of fishing documentaries is set to Fernando Pessoa’s eponymous poem. Screens before Lisbon Revisited.
9'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
When nurse Penelope Kruxis meets a nameless, teleporting mutant in the ruins of burnt-down Chiado, outrageous things are destined to happen.
8'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Why does Braga’s Estádio Municipal evoke thoughts of Roman circuses and Estado Novo hubris? Is FIFA the Quinto Império realised?
7'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A portrayal of Futurist writer Almada Negreiros without any cultural reservations. Provocative, in defense of lust, debauchery, frenetic daily experience.
33'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Since the Nazis infamously proclaimed at Auschwitz I that 'Labour Liberates', work has lost all positive values and notions. What now?
25'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
After the works of artist João Queiroz met the musings of neuro-philosopher Robert Anton Wilson, life will never look the same.
6'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
What happens when a gay writer wakes up straight, his groove gone? The film nobody expected of Pêra: a deliciously ordinary burlesque!
96'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A movie trance driven by Terrence McKenna’s incantations, Aleister Crowley’s calls for the Crowned and Conquering Child, plus some Pessoa, of course.
19'
Portugal
IFFR 2019