Luís Urbano
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Luís Urbano at IFFR
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Alpha
Miguel Fonseca’s first film. Highly stylised, literary in tone, it’s ultimately a disarmingly intriguing and beautifully-shot android romance
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Our Beloved Month of August
In the Portuguese hills, August is the time of feasts, singing and debauched ways of enjoying oneself. Charming mix of fact and fiction shows urban
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Signs of Stillness Out of Meaningless Things
No one does darkness better. This is a confoundingly claustrophobic, sensual and mysterious film from the startlingly talented Sandro Aguilar.
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Gebo and the Shadow
Latest film by De Oliveira (104 years old: we mention it, but it’s not really relevant) is about duty, poverty and truth. Based on a play from 1923
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Redemption
Highlight of the film year: collage film featuring intimate thoughts from well-known Europeans in bombastic/ironic ‘letters’ from Portu
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Tabu
Hat tip to the eponymous F.W. Murnau classic in which Portuguese talent Miguel Gomes tells a melancholy story about ageing, lost love, missed oppor
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Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One
While Scheherazade wonders how much longer she’ll be able to distract her cruel husband with stories, we discover how the love of birdsong came to
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One
Magical realism, documentary and political satire coalesce in this contemporary Arabian Nights. Scheherazade tells stories about the dismal state o
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One
In which Scheherazade continues to tell of the tormented Portuguese people, who turn away from the authorities and look for new heroes. Just as in
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The Old Man of Belém
A survey of some of the career highlights of the oldest active filmmaker in the world, in the imaginary company of some literary greats.