Today marks World Cinema Day, a date that celebrates the seventh art and its role in culture and creativity. This celebration is an excellent opportunity to highlight films by students from School of Arts that have been selected for the 31st edition of the Caminhos do Cinema Português Festival.
As usual, EA productions will once again be featured at Caminhos do Cinema Português, this year with six films in the Essays section:
· Cleopatra & António, by Diego Bragà (Film and Television Production Course, promoted by Gulbenkian and the School of Arts);
· Supervadios, by Ricardo Salgado (Master's Degree in Film, EA);
· Valsas na Lua, by Francisco de Assis (Bachelor's Degree in Film, EA);
· Berro, by Gabriel Andrade (Bachelor's Degree in Film, EA);
· Naufragia, by Carolina Vaz Rebelo (Bachelor's Degree in Sound and Image, EA);
· O Pássaro de Dentro, by Laura Anahory (Master's Degree in Sound and Image, EA).
Anahory's film has also been selected for the 24th edition of the International Student Film and Video Festival (ISFVF) in Beijing, China (November 7 to 14), and for the Seville European Film Festival in Spain (November 7 to 15).
The Festival will take place in Coimbra from November 15 to 22, and the program can be found on the official website.
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"CLEOPATRA & ANTÓNIO" by Diego Bragà War. Cleopatra and Antony lock themselves in the mausoleum while Brazil is recolonized. The word colonization comes to life and nature reacts to the destruction of the Earth from the desire for immortality. On the verge of his death, Antony asks for a lullaby. In a funeral mating dance, two historical and tyrannical characters dream, in the midst of war, of a non-binary politics of Love. In this de-colonial and queer rewriting of Shakespeare's tragic play, Egypt is Brazil and Rome is Portugal. |
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"SUPERVADIOS" by Ricardo Salgado A collection of numerous audio recordings of conversations between an aunt and her nephew on a journey with no set destination. Through family ghosts, drug addiction, near-death experiences, the sea and the beach, ex-boyfriends and nights out, Sister Sledge and Supertramp, we are exposed to the emotional ambiguities and sometimes contradictory nature of a unique and special relationship. |
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"VALSAS NA LUA" by Francisco de Assis Filipe lived immersed in the innocence of a happy child and fell asleep surrounded by his parents' love. Now, as a young adult, he finds in the comfort of his memories the ghosts that rob him of sleep. He finds himself haunted by the grief of his father's death and spends a night of longing and loneliness. |
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"BERRO" by Gabriel Andrade This film is about jumping into the stream of noise and seeing its color. |
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"NAUFRAGIA" by Carolina Vaz Rebelo With the death of her grandfather, Laura inherits his cattle ranch. After a brief encounter with a hunter, she realizes she is facing a trap. |
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"O PÁSSARO DE DENTRO" by Laura Anahory The film follows a woman and the bird that lives inside her, and how their inability to coexist causes physical damage to her body. |