Guimarães: Rocking the Cradle
In turbulent times, four jewels of Portuguese filmmaking, three international premieres – big questions, difficult translations and unfettered imaginations.
In this combined programme
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Cacheu
Originating as a performance at Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Filipa César’s film is a powerfully vivid illustration of how ‘history throws its empty bottle
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Zwazo
Hinting at Pasolini, under the watchful presence of a vulture and an eagle, transposing ancient Greece to Haiti and asking enough questions in betw
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Luís
A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal’s greatest poet.
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Na escama do dragão
Liberal doses of pirates and swimming pools on a journalist and cameraman’s trip to Macau, which till 1999 was Europe’s last remaining colony
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