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october 19 - friday
19 Oct. 14.30 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
18 Oct. 18.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
Their Frozen Dream [VN]
Jan Troell
60´ Sweden, 1997
After the Oscar-nominated fiction feature “Flight of the Eagle”
(1982) – the story of three Swedish explorators that tried to reach
the North Pole in a balloon) – director Jan Troell returned to the
same subject in the documentary “Their Fozen Dream”. Narrated by
Max von Sydow, this film is based on the authentic documents (letter,
photographs and personal journals) found between the remains of the
ill-fated expedition, discovered in 1930 on an island in the Artic
Ocean in 1930 after 32 years buried in the ice.
19 Oct. 16.30 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
21 Oct. 16.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
& etc [P]
Cláudia Clemente
25´ Portugal 2007
Founded in 1973, “& etc” is a small publishing house with unique
standards: it’s not profit oriented, it doesn’t publish commercial
books and it favours unknown authors. Over the years it has become
a reference in the Portuguese publishing world, where it’s both by
its carefully designed squared books, and by the unique authors it
has published: among many others, director João César Monteiro, and
poets Adília Lopes and Alberto Pimenta. In this documentary, two
of its directors, Vitor Silva Tavares and Rui Caeiro, remember some
of the episodes that have marked three decades of literary adventures.
19 Oct. 16.30 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
21 Oct. 16.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone – The Story of José Bação
Leal
Luísa Marinho
56´ Portugal 2007
José Bação Leal was born in 1942 in Portugal and died in Mozambique,
during the portuguese colonial war. With only 23 years old he was
a promising writer and thinker. Like hundreds of young men of his
generation, he died in a war he was against. He left us an impressive
artistic testimony of his own human experience
19 Oct. 18.30 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
Intimate Stranger [DF]
Alan Berliner
60´ USA 1991
Seventeen years after his death, Alan Berliner has constructed a
poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle out of the voluminous memorabilia
of his grandfather's life story. Joseph Cassuto, a Palestinian Jew,
was a cotton buyer for the Japanese in Egypt prior to World War II.
With Hitler's armies just miles away from Alexandria, Cassuto's family
is split in half. They reunite in New York after the war, but Cassuto
is restless there. He moves to Japan to spend eleven months of the
year, virtually abandoning his wife and children in the U.S. while
he pursues his business interests and a life-long love affair with
Japanese culture.
19 Oct. 18.30 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
Nobody's Business [DF]
Alan Berliner
60´ USA 1996
Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject
of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
The director travels to Poland and visits Jewish cemeteries, interviews
scores of relatives throughout the U.S., makes a trip to the Mormon
archives in Salt Lake City, digs up countless family photos and home
movies, as well as old documents in a relentless search for his roots.
What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor
and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father
and son.
19 Oct. 21.00 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
22 Oct. 22.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
My 9/11 [CI]
Tjebbo Penning
11´ USA/Holland 2006
On my laptop (after the kids were in bed), next to the window from
which I saw it all happen, I made a little film in a way that was
completely new to me; no budget, no crew, no pressure. The video
images of the WTC on 9/11 were shot by a neighbor, Andrea Star Reese,
who had more or less the same view on the towers. She shot what I
remember seeing, and was so very kind to let me use the material.
19 Oct. 21.00 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
22 Oct. 22.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
Jesus Camp [CI]
Heidi Ewing
85´ USA 2006
A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival
underway in America whereby Christian youth must take up the leadership
of the religious right. “Jesus Camp” follows Levi, Rachael, Tory
and a number of other young children to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids
on Fire" summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids
as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian
soldiers in "God's army." The film follows these children
at camp as they hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled
in how to "take back America for Christ." The film is
a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again
Christian children to become an active part of America's political
future.
19 Oct. 23.00 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
22 Oct. 23.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 1)
The Two Faces of War [I]
Diana Andringa and Flora Gomes
100´ Portugal 2007
Liberation war to some, Africa war to others, the conflict that
opposed the PAIGC to the Portuguese troops between 1963 and 1974
is described differently in the two countries’ history books. But
those aren’t the only “two faces” of this war. Beyond the conflict,
there was always some degree of complicity between the two adversaries:
“We’re not fighting against the Portuguese people, but against colonialism”,
Amilcar Cabral said. And it’s true that many Portuguese were on the
PAIGC side. It was no accident that the Captains’ Movement that would
lead to the 1974 Revolution was born in Guiné. Again, two faces:
the war ends with a doble victory – Guiné’s independence, and the
democracy in Portugal.
19 Oct. 14.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
23 Oct. 20.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
El ejido, La Loi du Profit [I]
Jawad Rhalib
80´ Belgium 2006
Today, the formerly-deserted region of Almeria in southern Spain
produces one third of Europe’s winter consumption of fruits and vegetables
and reaps two thirds of the country’s farm profits. This ‘economic
miracle’ in a greenhouse relies on the labour of nearly 80.000 immigrants,
half of whom do not have proper working papers. In a destroyed environment
where the air is vitiated by pesticides and ground water is running
out, the village of El Ejido illustrates, almost to the point of
caricature, this industrial exploitation of men and the land encouraged
by globalisation. The workers stay in chabolas, small constructions
made of cardboard and plastic, without water or electricity. Near-slavery
that fills our plates…
19 Oct. 16.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and The
Warhol Factory [RE]
Esther Robinson
75´ USA 2007
“A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory” is
director Esther Robinson's personal inquiry into the truth behind
her uncle Danny Williams' mysterious 1966 disappearance. Virtually
unknown today, Danny was Andy Warhol's lover, and a promising young
filmmaker. The discovery of 20 never-before-seen films William's
made during his time at the Factory reveals a luminous talent and
a stark gap in the historical record. Combined with Robinson's intimate
interviews of surviving Factory members, the film gets beyond the
icons and quietly dismantles the Warhol myth-making machine, allowing
a deeper examination of the human fragility on which Andy Warhol's
empire was built.
19 Oct. 18.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
20 Oct. 16.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
The Monastery [VN]
Pernille Rose Gronkjaer
84´ Denmark 2006
This is a story about the 82-year-old bachelor Mr. Vig, who has
never known love, and Sister Amvrosija, a young Russian nun, who
by chance, or destiny, becomes part of his life. 50 years ago Jørgen
Lauersen Vig bought Hesbjerg Castle, situated in the Danish country
side, with the purpose of turning it into a monastery. Now, many
years later, he is about to realize his dream. A group of Russian
Orthodox nuns are on their way, and thus Mr. Vig’s life-long dream
is about to come true. But, nuns have plans and wills of their own,
and Mr. Vig must realize that the road to fulfilling his dream is
very different than what he imagined.
19 Oct. 20.45 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
24 Oct. 18.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
Jean Paul [I]
Francesco Uboldi
8´ Italie 2006
Baloum is a very remote and pristine village up in the mountains
of Western Cameroon. Jean Paul was born and raised there. He's dying
chained to a tree, victim of superstitions. He's been left without
food and water for days. Jean, the man who is in charge of his custody,
talks about a magical ring.
19 Oct. 20.45 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
24 Oct. 18.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
The Devil Came on Horseback [I]
Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern
85´ USA 2007
Using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former
U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, “The Devil Came on Horseback”
takes the viewer on an emotionally charged journey into the heart
of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically
executing a plan to rid the province of it’s black African citizens.
As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of
the country that no journalist could penetrate. He was unprepared
for what he would witness and experience, including being fired upon,
taken hostage, and being unable to intervene to save the lives of
young children. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction of the international
community, Steidle resigned and returned to the US to expose the
images and stories of lives systematically destroyed.
19 Oct. 22.45 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
Autoportrait ou Ce qui Nous Manque à Tous [DF]
Man Ray
11´ France 1930
“Autoportrait” is the perfect example of Man Ray’s photographic
experimental work, here done directly on the film stock. With his
own atelier as a backdrop, these images combine the photographic
manipulation of the most unexpected objects – from pins to salt and
pepper, and even the porcelain pipe with a glass bubble, the object/sculpture
whose name is the subtitle of “Autoportrait”.
La Garoupe [DF]
Man Ray
9´ France 1937
“La Garoupe” was Man Ray’s first colour film. Shot in Antibes, on
the French Mediterranean coast, it takes the apparent form of a “holiday
movie” where we can see, among other, Picasso and Paul Eluard.
Wedlock
House: An Intercourse [DF]
Stan Brakhage
11` USA 1959
Window, Water, Baby, Moving [DF]
Stan Brakhage
12´ USA 1959
Kindering [DF]
Stan Brakhage
3´ USA 1987
I... Dreaming [DF]
Stan Brakhage
8´ USA 1988
Untitled (For Marilyn) [DF]
Stan Brakhage
11´ USA 1992
Brakhage's work offers an eloquent and deeply affecting alternative
to consumer culture in the West. He abjures predigested emotions,
predictable formulas, and "pretty pictures." His films
cannot be reduced to a simple summary or message, and each viewer's
experience of them will necessarily be somewhat different. The engaged
viewer is removed from the state of mind in which to look at a scene
or sight is to desire it, covet it, think you understand it, and
wish to own it: instead, Brakhage asks for both much less and much
more — he asks that you dance with it. (Fred Camper)
Notebook [DF]
Marie Menken
10´ USA 1940-62
Marie was one of the first filmmakers to improvise with a camera
and edit while shooting. She filmed with her entire body, her entire
nervous system. She took the film – the non-narrative film, the poetic
film, the language of film – in a completely new direction, away
from classic filmmaking and into a new adventure.
Jonas Mekas
Our
Trip to Africa [DF]
Peter Kubelka
13´ Áustria 1966
In 1961 Peter Kubelka was asked to make a documentary about a group
of Europeans on an African hunting trip. He accompanied them, recorded
many hours of film and sound, and then spent five years editing this
material into a most unconventional film. The result, Unsere Afrikareise,
is one of the most densely packed 12½ minutes in film history, and
makes truly extraordinary use of the creative possibilities of sound.
Thanks to Kubelka’s editing, the film is also an exemplary allegory
of the way the westerners see the African continent, as well as a
portrayal of all the traces of European colonialism.
26 Oct. 14.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 14.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 1)
Surplus - Terrorised into Being Consumers [VN]
Erik Gandini
52´ Sweden 2002
Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today?
How come the privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead
to happiness? Why all this emptiness despite our wealth? Erik Gandini's
approach through ”Surplus” is to portray this issue from an emotional
rather than a factual perspective. Shot in the US, India, China,
Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Canada and Cuba during three years, ”Surplus”
is the result of a complicated editing process by talented music
composer/editor/percussionist Johan Söderberg. Much of the film’s
theoretical approach to global consumerism is indebted to John Zerzan,
the controversial american philosopher whose writings inspired many
to take action into the streets.
26 Oct. 14.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 14.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 1)
Hidden [VN]
David Aronowich
8´ Sweden 2002
Hidden is an animated short documentary based on an interview with
a hidden refugee child in Sweden. It combines the voice of one refugee
child with animated images. Giancarlo has no permit to stay in Sweden
and he describes how it is to be persecuted. The film travels to
Peru and to the school in Sweden but mostly stays in the room where
the interview took place. In the room is Giancarlo's father and mother
with a newborn baby and his little brother.
26 Oct. 14.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 14.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 1)
Arks [VN]
Karin Karlsson and Mita Moberg
13´ Sweden 2004
One hundred miles north of the Arctic circle, a small community
of hardy individuals fish on a frozen lake in temperatures of minus
25 degrees Celsius. This documentary joins them in their cabins or
'arks'.
26 Oct. 14.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 14.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 1)
I Remember Lena Svedberg [VN]
Carl Johan De Geer
6´ Sweden 1999
Lena Svedberg was an artist, a genius, but it was almost impossible
to understand what she was thinking. She was painting walls and floors
black and she was making chaotic, detailed drawings. She was only
26 when she committed suicide in 1972, having suffered from an eating
disorder, anorexia neurosa, which nobody had heard about in those
days.
26 Oct. 18.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 16.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 1)
Rock Soup
Lech Kowalski
81´ USA 1991
A documentary about a group of homeless people who live in a camp
in New York’s Lower East Side: marginalized men and women who, to
survive in the heart of this great metropolis, have organized a welcome
centre in Culture Plaza, the Rainbow Soup Kitchen, where every guest
can receive a hot meal and shelter from the cold. When the city threatens
to close the centre to tear down the whole neighbourhood, the homeless
come together and start their battle with the city.
24 Oct. 20.45 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 18.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 1)
The Boot Factory
Lech Kowalski
87´ France/Poland 2000
The life of a group of young Polish punkers in Cracow and their
small business making leather boots. Kowalski films the work and
leisure of three friends – Lukasz, Piotr and Wojclech – divided among
hard music, wild parties, and capitalist commercial strategies. They
are caught at a critical moment of their lives, in the grip of problems
with alcohol and drugs, quarrels with their girlfriends, and children
to look after.
19 Oct. 21.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 1)
The Land before the Sky [SE]
João Botelho
63´ Portugal 2007
“A Terra antes do Céu” is an encounter of artists in order to celebrate
the genius of the Portuguese writer Miguel Torga. It films the creation
of music by some contemporary composers who took inspiration from
his magical texts or the passages from Torga’s “Wondrous Kingdom”.
And filming the soul of the stones and of the hills and the heart
and the eyes of the men and animals of the world that Torga invented,
challenging all of us and challenging God himself.
19 Oct. 23.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 1)
Despuès de la Revolución [SE]
Vincent Dieutre
55´ France 2007
In his latest film, Vincent Dieutre recounts his first stay in Buenos
Aires, a world that is new to him, yet feels very familiar. With
a «maelstrom of images», slow and fast, superimposed, the filmmaker
pays tribute to a city that is free, lively, colourful, «where everything
still seems possible» and that remains an inexhaustible source of
daydreams.
23 Oct. 16.45 - Culturgest (Large Auditorium)
19 Oct. 14.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
As operações SAAL [P]
João Dias
90´ Portugal 2007
The Local Ambulatory Support Service (SAAL) was created in 1974
by architect Nuno Portas when he was the I Provisional Government’s
Housing and Urbanism Secretary of State. SAAL’s objective was to
assist poorly housed populations to rebuild or convert their own
neighbourhoods using mainly their own material and financial resources.
Portuguese architecture after the 1974 revolution is SAAL – a unique
movement in the history of architecture that served as an exemple
to many other projects worldwide.
23 Oct. 18.15 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 16.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
Cool & Crazy [VN]
Knut Erik Jensen
105´ Norway 2001
With “Cool and Crazy” one of Norway's most experienced and renowned
feature film directors is bringing to the screen a world he knows
and loves. And he does it in the spirit of the people he portrays,
with irreverence and wit and highly charged. For some this will be
a film about men. For others it will be about love. Or politics.
Or fish. Above all it is about the dignity of ordinary lives lived
under extreme circumstances.
21 Oct. 22.45 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 18.00 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
Ghosts of Cité Soleil [VN]
Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic
88´ Denmark 2007
Two brothers are stuck in a system of political violence. They are
gangleaders in President Aristide’s secret army of slum gangs. One
wants to fight for the president, the other wants out. They live
in Cité Soleil, the most dangerous place on earth. A film about Haiti,
where gangs, gun rappings, love and dramatic, political events, together,
tell the true story of the last months of Aristide’s presidency.
19 Oct. 20.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
The Perfect Human [VN]
Jørgen Leth
13´ Denmark 1967
The
five obstructions [VN]
Jorgen Leth and Lars Von Trier
90´ Denmark 2003
In the year 2000, Lars von Trier challenged Jørgen Leth to make
5 remakes of “The Perfect Human” (directed by Leth in 1967), but
each time Trier will put forward obstructions, constraining Leth
to rethink the story and the characters of the original film. Playing
the naïve anthropologist, Leth attempts to embrace the cunning challenges
set forth by the devious and sneaky Trier. Five times Leth will have
to deal with the limitations, commands and prohibitions made by Trier.
It is a game full of traps and vicious turns. A fascinating film
about a filmmaker not only revisiting, but also recreating one of
his first films. “The Five Obstructions” is an investigative journey
into the phenomenon of filmmaking.
25 Oct. 11.00 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 22.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
Suckers [VN]
John Webster
57´ Finland 1993
“Suckers” is a portrayal of Finland during the recession of the
early 1990’s that is delightful to watch, yet makes you shiver at
the same time. Undoubtedly influenced by “Salesman” (1968), the classic
Albert and David Maysles documentary, the film concentrates on following
the daily grind of three door-to-door vacuum cleaner salespeople.
Kristiina is a tenacious and ruthless top seller, who talks single
mothers into buying. Heimo is a Karelian with a jovial way of speech,
who gets by in his work. The unemployed car mechanic Kimmo has only
just started in his new profession and doesn’t seem to get a single
vacuum cleaner sold. This gallery of characters is completed by the
salespeople’s aggressive boss, who lacks every bit of understanding
for those who are unsuccessful.
25 Oct. 11.00 - Culturgest (Small Auditorium)
19 Oct. 22.30 - Cinema Londres (Room 2)
The Stars Caravan [VN]
Arto Halonen
56´ Denmark/Finland 2000
The Soviet Union developed the Kyrgyz Nomadic Cinema as a propaganda
weapon, taking specially selected films by cars and horse caravans
to the nomads of the rugged mountain regions. The collapse of the
system and the shift to market economy following independence saw
the end of the travelling cinema and a move from Soviet propaganda
to American B-movie violence. In eastern Kyrgyzstan, in the small
town of Naryn, the two cinema projectionists and protagonists, Zarylbek
and Myrat, represent different eras and ways of thinking. The older
projectionist, Zarylbek, yearns for the Soviet system and the travelling
cinema culture, whereas Murat has grown up in the new capitalist
world and is more interested in western culture.
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