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- In a remote village called Bostofrio, a young filmmaker breaks the law of silence in order to unearth the story of his grandfather. A series of awkward and funny interviews that reveal the secrets and half truths that are the fabric of rural Portugal.
- While searching among mountains and rivers for Melusina, the mutant and legendary mermaid of the city of Luxembourg, the director talks to four women about their uncertain identities : what it is like to be an immigrant without being one, and to be Luxembourgish without being one. A journey through memories in rainy times. A search for ever-fragmented identities. An uncertain attempt at reconciliations.
- Portugal is Lilia's last home, a 67-year old woman, whose life is marked by continuous migration. Lilia has lived in 8 countries and hasn't been back to her native Colombia in almost 40 years. Josephine, the filmmaker always behind the camera, offers her mother an instrument, cinema, to put together the story of a fragmented life. Josephine explores her mother's present and the discomfort with places and decisions of the past. The meeting between mother and daughter, mediated by the film device, is filled with universal meaning and becomes a revealing dialogue, opening up big questions about freedom, loneliness and the sense of belonging.
- They are hidden cases behind barriers, windows and closed doors, rusted gates, walls that fall apart and ceilings that don´t exist. They are people that stumbled in the waste and the disillusionment, the deprivation, lost and aguish. They are people that were pushed from dreams to the ground. They are people who could be us. I wanted to direct a documentary about today´s world. About a world of progress which has forgotten people. I wanted to show real people, that hide and are hidden, people that you can not see and are forgotten. I never wanted to label or limit myself in exposing the misery and poverty. I always preferred to understand the causes and consequences, to understand how a single event in life can provoke such profound change, how from one moment to another we can fall in to the abyss. And how difficult it is to get out. There are generations growing up and living in a hole without a bottom, with habits arising out of impotence, many times from apathy and an inability to react. I spoke a lot with many people. I learned. I let them speak more than I spoke. I filmed and returned to film again. I returned to the places, the people and the conversations. I got to know the characters and developed relationships. They let me a little bit in to the difficult conditions of their everyday lives, the shattered work, the lack of love and care which does not exist. It is a prison without bars and transparent walls. In this film, I went to places where the collective spirit has died, where the people live close to social death. They are faces that approach life like a punishment, social characters without material possession. They are eyes tired of the lack of luck because you can not speak about bad luck when you do not understand the significance of the word. They are men and women. Forgotten.
- Lars is an elderly swedish man, who has chosen to spend his winters in solitude as a care taker of the few hiking huts next to Sweden's highest mountain Kebnekaise.
- The road to Inhaminga, in Mozambique, is populated by ghosts that wander in the dark. The bullets fell silent almost half a century ago, but I can still hear their echo. I'm looking for revolutions that I don't know when they end. Along the way, I only find words that span time.
- In today's society we are daily invaded by images of beautiful and young bodies. Older bodies are hidden and forgotten as if they were steeped in negativity. In this film we are faced with these bodies, naked and happy, on a day-to-day of a beach in Lisbon area. After all, aren't these bodies beautiful, happy, full of life? Why do we refuse to see ourselves in those bodies, if they are ultimately the testimony of a long and rich experience? In "A Praia" (The Beach), the elderly come back to active life, they leave the places of suffering or loneliness, contempt or scorn they sadly inhabit in contemporary societies. They play, swim, run, have fun. They are back to being people like everyone else.
- In the late 70s and early 80s in the city of Porto, concerts by Rock and Punk bands began to appear. April 25, 1974, which put an end to the longest dictatorship in Europe, brought political and creative freedom. Through a series of tableaux vivants based on photos from an era covered with a nostalgic aura, but employing contemporary mannequins, the film revives some loud narrations of those crazy times, which failed to reach our ears.
- SINOPSE Esta é a história incrível do único habitante da Ilha Deserta, no Algarve. Fernando Alves, 66 anos, bigode à Hemingway, é pescador, cozinheiro, conversador e inventor. Vive sozinho na ilha desde 1981. Este é um documentário sobre a vida, a solidão e a amizade, sobre um modo alternativo de viver fora dos grandes centros urbanos, em harmonia com a natureza e consigo próprio. É um filme sobre um homem solitário, generoso e cheio de sentido de humor que nos leva a questionar as nossas próprias vidas e rotinas. Chamam-lhe A Raposa da Deserta. SYNOPSIS This is the incredible story of the only inhabitant of the Desert Island, in the Algarve. Fernando Alves, 66, the Hemingway mustache, is a fisherman, a cook, a communicator and an inventor. He has lived alone on the island since 1981. This is a documentary about life, loneliness and friendship, about an alternative way of living outside major urban centers, in harmony with nature and with oneself. It is a film about a lonely man, generous and full of sense of humour that makes us question our own lives and routines. They call him "The Fox of the Desert". SINOPSIS LARGA Esta es la increíble historia del único habitante de la Isla Desierta, en Algarve, Portugal. Fernando Alves, 60 años, con bigote de Hemingway, es pescador, cocinero, conversador e inventor. Vive solo en la isla desde 1981. Este es un documental sobre la vida, la soledad y la amistad, sobre un modo alternativo de vivir lejos de los centros urbanos, en armonía con la naturaleza y con uno mismo. Es una película sobre un hombre solitario, generoso y con un gran sentido del humor que nos hace cuestionar nuestras propias vidas y rutinas. Le llaman el zorro de la Desierta.
- Shot in film and hand processed by the director for over 20 years, Lucefece mixes personal, political and mythical views on reality exorcizing old ghosts. Stories from the director's childhood, together with conversations with his father, that fought in the colonial war in Africa and later was arrested, prepare the scenario for a profound reflexion on today's world. The film spirals like a snake travelling through time, an eternal recurrence, mixing documentary with film essay and autobiographical tones.
- It's an ordinary day. Ships sail off, people stay ashore waiting. Something unexpected occurs. A ship collides with a small boat, which capsizes after being hit by a wave. There are cries, men stuck in the hold, fishermen are out in the cold days on end crammed in a dinghy. On shore, people are crying after having heard the news, they're preparing for mourning, and they are waiting for a ray of sunshine that could maybe bring live people. The dates won't be forgotten, and the scars stay in the body and mind of those who experienced it.
- Disillusionment helps the feet enter the cold water. It is like a whisper indifferent to the distorted music that echoes round the beach. Disillusionment makes these people beg to heaven what they cannot achieve on earth. How many are the dreams they dare not dream?
- We live beyond our means - the most fraudulent statement in our recent history serves only to hide the true evils of a country that once dreamed of better days. A country filled with corrupt people that put at stake the welfare state, the protection of minorities, the disadvantaged. There are people in this documentary. Living people who have never lived beyond their means. They lived, at best, under all odds, surviving up the odds. They are people who saw their meager incomes to be reduced, found themselves being evicted from their rooms and houses. They are people of flesh and blood who live day-to-day with the uncertainty of a meal, a night under a ceiling. We live beyond our means, "we were told. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to reality.
- The sound was deafening. The noise of the machines, the steps, the daily hustle of the more than a thousand workers, entering and leaving the shifts. There were 12-hour days, people without holidays, a stolen youth so that the cloth would continue to leave the factory. The revolution came and everything changed. Strikes, picket strikes, worker's rights. Then the globalisation came. The factory went down to close. We went back to it, with the former workers, the old and the young. The machines continue to work in the empty spaces, the ghosts wander illuminated by traces of light until the walls begin to fall.