I Remember the Crows (2018)

Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the test of time to this day and age.

Gatto and Barbot are lifelong companions for more then 40 years and have just moved to a big decayed and abandoned building downtown Rio de Janeiro, where they start to live and promote their dance company rehearsals. The difficulties of everyday life are merged to artistic creation and to their belief in the Orishas gods. Through dance they spread through the city, occupying their territories.

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical.

가상의 도시 아퀼레이아, 어떤 세력의 무력 침입을 막기 위해 소수의 의로운 사람들이 동분서주하며 작전을 세운다. 당시 아르헨티나는 쿠데타로 집권한 군부의 독재 정치가 시작된 시기였고, (저예산) SF 장르의 외양을 띤 은 결과적으로 아르헨티나의 암울한 정치 상황을 떠올릴 수밖에 없게 한다. 시나리오에 보르헤스가 참여하기도 했다. 1969년 로카르노영화제 특별 언급.

Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three discover their problem in short order; when they return for an explanation, they're in for a surprise.

“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

Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child, setting up an elaborate charade to lure him into her bed. When Catarina reveals her pregnancy, though, her current live-in girlfriend doesn't take to it kindly and promises to make Catarina's life hell; to make matters worse, Rafael finds out her true identity and comes to Lisbon to see her. And Catarina's sole refuge is in the arms of fellow journalist Francisco, her professional relationship slowly becoming a romantic one.

하울 브란당의 희곡을 영화화한 작품. 아내와 딸과 함께 조용히 살아가는 게보에게는 사실 8년 전 집을 떠난 아들 주앙이 있다. 그런데 어느 날 밤, 주앙이 아무 일도 없었다는 듯이 집으로 돌아오고 이때부터 말로 설명하기 힘든 이상한 긴장감이 발생한다. 한정된 공간 안에서 벌어지는 인물들의 미묘한 심리 변화가 돋보이는 작품. (2014 한국시네마테크협의회 - 마누엘 드 올리베이라 회고전)

서른 살까지는 신이 주신 얼굴로 살지만, 이후에는 자신에게 어울리는 얼굴을 가꿔야 한다는 포르투갈의 속담. 프란시스코는 축제 기간에 서른 살 생일을 맞는다. 교사로 일하는 그는 카우보이 복장을 하고 연극제가 열리는 학교로 간다. 그런데 아이들의 연극이 끝나갈 무렵 무대에 등장한 프란시스코가 갑자기 정신을 잃는데, 게다가 불행은 이것으로 끝나지 않는다. 자유분방하고 독창적인 이야기를 선보이는 포르투갈 감독 미겔 고미쉬의 장편 데뷔작. 일률적 기준 아래 성장하기를 강요받는 인물은 혼란 속에 위기를 맞고, 고미쉬는 이를 현실과 환상의 경계를 넘나들며 아름답고 신비롭게 그려냈다.

개개인이 바라보는 어두운 역사의 자락들. 한 영화인과 전직 활동가에서 작가로 전직한 그녀의 뮤즈, 누구와도 관계를 맺지 못하는 듯 보이는 이직한 웨이트리스, 로맨틱하게 엮인 배우와 여배우. 거의 보이지 않을 정도로 느슨하게 서로 얽혀 있는 이들 모두의 복잡한 삶의 진실이 조금씩 밝혀지기 시작한다. (2016년 제21회 부산국제영화제)

이윤을 넘어 오직 인간만이 창출 가능한 가치에 대해 논하는 올해의 주목해야 할 포르투갈 영화. 야음을 틈타 기계들이 반출되자 공장 노동자들은 일자리를 잃을까 봐 노심초사한다. 노사 간에 충돌이 일어나고 공장은 반쯤 비게 된다. 하지만 이와 동시에 새로운 비전도 보이기 시작한다. (2017년 제22회 부산국제영화제)

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier.

Miguel —alias Tibars, alias “Djon África,” born and raised in Portugal— is a kindhearted Rastafarian who loves women and lives a carefree life. Until one day a stranger tells him he's the spitting image of his father, “a player and a crook.” His father, whom he never even knew! This intriguing discovery makes him change tack. Particularly when his grandmother, who always took care of him, finally tells him how his father was in prison; how sad Miguel was as a toddler when he couldn't see him; how his father was banished to Cape Verde. Miguel goes there to visit him. Who is this man?

Linda is a young woman of Chinese heritage whose mother converted to Christianity after gaining some fame as a badminton player. Her friend Cahyono is tired of anti-Chinese prejudice and now tells people he’s from Japan. Together, they try to make sense of their place in the Indonesian society.

Two magicians in Philadelphia practice their slight of hand tricks.

Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana embarks on journey, until one day, she decided to go back to the place where she was abandoned.

In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento trained some inmates and together with his crew, they produced many hours of footage, showing daily life in prison.

An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier. An almost mystical link between both scenes. A musician is testing sounds in Bastille's pit. The choir are taking their place in the rehearsal studio. Both sides are fine tuning the work in progress of an opera ballet: Sarah Winchester, her grief, her madness, her home and her ghosts.

In a small town in the countryside in the south of Brazil, a teenager that uses the codename Mr. Tambourine Man spends his time in Internet, at school, smoking pot with his best friend Diego and with his dysfunctional mother. He dreams on leaving his hometown to watch a Bob Dylan's show but seems to be hopeless stranded in the spot.

2016년 8월, 브라질의 첫 여성 대통령인 지우마 호세프가 상원의원에 의해 대통령직에서 해임되었다. 그녀는 일련의 부패 스캔들과 혐의들 후에 공격을 받았다. 이 법정 드라마는 호세프의 변호인단의 관점에서 정치적으로 동기부여된 재판을 기록한다.