Pedro Almendra

Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a hairdresser with a quiet disposition who, at night, fantasises about the policeman who has just moved in next door. By day, Vítor is a lowly employee on a TV show. But at night, he dons his neighbour’s uniform to win the favour and satisfy the desires of a boy he’s met online. In her retirement home, Júlia is unable to sleep at night and has long forgotten what drugs she is meant to be taking. She misses her dead husband, who manifests himself in the body of a living friend, and gets involved in her daily activities. Through these characters, Diogo Costa Amarante constructs a fascinating portrait of lives lived while desires remain unrealised.

It is 1979. Four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.

Snu é dinamarquesa e a fundadora da editora D. Quixote, publicando livros que desafiam a censura do Estado Novo. Francisco é um dos mais carismáticos políticos portugueses. Ambos são casados. Ele tem cinco filhos e ela tem três. Snu Abecassis conhece Francisco Sá-Carneiro no dia 6 de Janeiro de 1976. Apaixonam-se irremediavelmente e decidem assumir esse amor num Portugal em plena reconstrução das cinzas do fascismo, abalando as convenções nacionais. Partilham valores e ambição, lutam juntos pela democracia e pela liberdade, deixando a sua marca na política e na sociedade. Morrem tragicamente em 1980, protagonizando uma das grandes histórias de amor do século XX.

In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet. The film and an accompanying book formed his PhD thesis. But as so often with him, projects turn into obsessions – especially when there are masses of notions not pondered, thoughts not elaborated upon. And so KINORAMA - Beyond the Walls of Cinema was born, a stand-alone continuation of The Amazing Spectator that looks at cinema’s future in cyberspace and, accordingly, perhaps the end of its enslavement to figurative representation, the 'stupid sacred in narrative cinema' (to use a Pêra’ism), realism and artificiality in 3D cinema, and many other aspects.

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?

Your past already is the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky.

A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.

Mariana é uma vedeta de televisão, perseguida, dia e noite, por João, um paparazzo que faz dela uma presença habitual nas capas das revistas sociais. Quando os dois se conhecem de forma fortuita, joão não revela a sua verdadeiraidentidade e, ao mesmo tempo em que se vão apaixonando, tenta por todosos meios que mariana não descubra a verdade... "A BELA E O PAPARAZZO" é uma comédia romântica, um olhar irônico e divertido sobre o mundo cor-de-rosa, onde a única "verdade" é aquela que é publicadanas revistas. Mas as coisa nunca são o que parecem...

An artistically shot film that slowly blurs the boundaries between dreams and reality as it builds into an unnerving then touching climax.