Joana Niza Braga

Debut feature by Leonor Teles. World Premiere at Locarno76.

Debut feature by Leonor Teles. World Premiere at Locarno76.

Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.

As a result of the pandemic and the economic crisis, there is a widespread revolt in the main cities of the country and Paulo and Cristina, an upper-middle-class couple with a newborn child, only do not join the popular indignation because they agreed, that same night, to organize a dinner for two friends: João, going through a divorce process that plunges him into a strange depression; and Raquel, Cristina's childhood friend who has spent the last few years crossing the planet on a journey of self-discovery. It's a night where, while the world changes outside, people reveal themselves inside, in this apartment where the confrontation between the real and the virtual reveals the most terrible truths.

Ara has always believed she will vanish when she turns 28 years old. As her birthday approaches, she submerges in the most fundamental sensations of existence. A masterful debut film from director-writer Ágata de Pinho, whose performance leads her character from trauma to catharsis in the most beautiful way.

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.

Goldie, a precocious teenager in a family shelter, wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. This is a story about displaced youth, ambition, and maintaining your spirit in the face of insurmountable obstacles.

恐怖小説やSF小説の先駆者H・P・ラブクラフトの「ザ・カラー・アウト・オブ・スペース（宇宙からの色／異次元の色彩）」をニコラス・ケイジ主演で映画化したSFホラー。ネイサン・ガードナーと妻のテレサは子どもたちとともに大都会の喧噪から逃れるため、閑静な田舎に移住してきた。しかし、前庭に隕石が激突して以来、一家の生活は心と体に影響を及ぼす地球外変異体との戦いに明け暮れ、理想としていた静かな田舎暮らしは悪夢へと変わってしまう。ケイジがネイサン役を演じるほか、ネイサンの妻テレサ役を「レッド・スパロー」のジョエリー・リチャードソン、長女ラヴィニア役を「ビッグ・アイズ」「好きだった君へ P.S.まだ大好きです」のマデリン・アーサーがそれぞれ演じる。監督は「ハードウェア」「ダスト・デビル」のリチャード・スタンリー。

Film biography dwelling on the hectic artistic life of António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.

A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.

暴力沙汰を起こした後、ロッキーを見つけたロイは、彼女の目に何かを感じ、運命的な決断を迫られる。ロッキーは彼女を連れてガルベストンに逃げるが、これは賢明ではないし、避けられない行動でもある。

社会全体が混乱した近未来の米国では新政党“NFFA”のブラッケンが大統領となり、年にひと晩だけすべての犯罪が合法化される制度“パージ（浄化）”が国民のストレス発散になるので犯罪率も失業率も激減すると主張。そんな“パージ”の効果を測定する実験がNYのスタテン島で行なわれることになり、住民たちがおびえる中、Dが率いるギャングは敵対勢力との対決に向けて準備する。その一方、“NFFA”の陰謀が進行し……。

A desolate woman struggles to accept her husband's unexpected death, but is confronted with his recurrent return to the waking world.

“Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another”, narrates the voiceover. “All the animals danced together and were immeasurably happy. There was only one who wasn’t invited to the celebration – the frog. In his rage about the injustice, he committed suicide.” Something Romani and frogs have in common is that they will never be unseen, or stay unnoticed. In her film, young director Leonor Teles weaves the life circumstance of Romani in Portugal today with the recollections of a yesterday. Anything but a passive observer, Teles consciously decides to participate and take up position. As a third pillar, she establishes an active applied performance art that becomes integrated in the cinematic narrative. Thereby transforming “once upon a time” into “there is”. “Afterwards, nothing will be as it was and the melody of life will have changed”, explains a voice off-camera. Golden Bear for Best Short Film 2016

At an abandoned chapel a teenager gives herself to a boy, unsuspecting of what's lurking in the shadows.

At an abandoned chapel a teenager gives herself to a boy, unsuspecting of what's lurking in the shadows.

Rhoma Acans is a journey of self-discovery undertaken by the director in order to understand the true identity weight of her Gypsy heritage, from the history of his own family to the way it moves away or approaches the story of a young gypsy inside the tradition – Her name is Joaquina.

Rhoma Acans is a journey of self-discovery undertaken by the director in order to understand the true identity weight of her Gypsy heritage, from the history of his own family to the way it moves away or approaches the story of a young gypsy inside the tradition – Her name is Joaquina.