In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.
Adelaide Álvares
A Inquisição continua a perseguição aos judeus portugueses, enviando o Visitador Sebastião Noronha à cidade do Porto. Com a família e a comunidade em perigo, António Álvares, decide traçar um plano de fuga.
Adelaide
“1618” is a film about the inquisitorial visit to Porto that encountered resistance from priests, ordinary citizens and the city authorities themselves, all accustomed for centuries to living alongside the Jews.
We stare at mirrors as if 'image' was a weapon of self-defense. At night, I hide in actors' dressing rooms for a working class experience. By day, I face an old theatre being razed to the ground, making way for a parking lot. Graffitis have curtains, the nose cap of an umbrella arises from a mount of sand. Oh, Happy Days! No need to stage anything! The bulldozer is a dinosaur whose teeth and gracious neck swings by a EU flag. In the boxes, we await the audience. Sometimes, nobody comes. Lost in a symbolic show of reality, I can only watch the world's end because all the endangered species perform and a reflecting labyrinth of life stories breaks through the glass of the Economic Eating Machine. Even when the sky is falling, theatre will always happen. So, choose the right place.
A survivor travels in search of the last bastion of civilization. Battling to survive, but never losing hope that something nostalgic from the past, which lives on in his memory, might still exist.
Lucinda
Na noite de 19 de Outubro de 1921, um grupo de marinheiros e guardas republicanos percorre as ruas de Lisboa naquela que viria a ser conhecida como a "camionete fantasma". Liderado pelo cabo Abel Olímpio, conhecido pela alcunha de "Dente de Ouro", o bando assassina várias figuras políticas e militares, incluindo os heróis da revolução de 1910, Machado Santos e Carlos da Maia. Os crimes chocam o país. Os jornais chamam-lhe a "Noite Sangrenta".
Laurindinha
Deus Não Quis é baseado na dramatização dos versos da canção popular LAURINDINHA. É a história de RAMIRO, um rapaz novo, que parte para a Guerra; do seu regresso e do desencontro com o amor da sua vida – LAURINDA
Rita
An artistically shot film that slowly blurs the boundaries between dreams and reality as it builds into an unnerving then touching climax.
Sofia
Portuguese film.
