Set in Macau, in graceful almost magical-realist style, Ivo M. Ferreira’s film connects East and West and the politics of the present to its echoes in the past, paralleling the sinking of a 12th-century Portuguese galley and a Chinese junk, taking in some startling contemporary architecture along the way.
Also 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 bottles o -
Zwazo
Hinting at Pasolini, under the watchful presence of a vulture and an eagle, transposing ancient Greece to Haiti and asking enough questions in between -
Luís
A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal’s greatest poet.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Macau, Portugal
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
