Overview of articles
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Djon África
A chance meeting sets 25-year-old Portuguese Djon África on the track of his roots in Cape Verde. He hopes to finally find his father, an…Published on: -
O nosso homem
A heartening return to Pedro Costa’s painterly cinema of hope and hopelessness – we go rabbit hunting with Ventura, thinking of Cape Verde.Published on: -
Deuses de pedra
Playful, poetic and heartwarming, shot in a sublime 16mm, Deuses de pedra transcends ethnography.Published on: -
On Falling
A migrant warehouse worker confronts alienation and precarity with quiet grace in this award-winning debut.Published on: -
Miséricorde
An earthy, deliciously ambiguous tale of sex, death and mushrooms, set in a picturesque French village.Published on: -
Ariel
A dreamlike revision of Shakespeare’s The Tempest staged in the whimsical Azores islands.Published on: -
Primeira pessoa do plural
An unsettling exploration of the foundations upon which a relationship is built.Published on: -
The Jester
A theatre director stages a play on Portuguese independence, where boundaries of time and fiction dissolve.Published on: -
Tardes de soledad
Albert Serra offers us Andrés Roca Rey, star matador of this violent performance: Tauromaquia – bullfighting.Published on: -
La Durmiente
Through children’s imagination, a forgotten historical character reclaims space in our collective memory.Published on: