Doc Alliance
10 Oct
— 14:00
/ 93’
Culturgest Pequeno Auditório
Aralkum
Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
2022
/Germany, Uzbekistan
/14’
A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks. Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms. Aralkum, the Aral Desert, is the bare seabed, the last thing left of the Aral Sea. By weaving together different cinematic textures, [...]
Light Years
Monika Proba
2021
/Poland, Russia
/28’
Vitali has always wanted to be a priest. There is only one thing left to do—according to the rules of the Eastern Orthodox Church, he needs to find a wife. Waiting for the change to come, he rents a flat with a friend from the seminary. They turn the two [...]
In the Billowing Night
Érika Étangsalé
2021
/France, Réunion
/52’
Jean-René is a retired workman who has lived in Mâcon, France, since emigrating from Reunion Island at the age of 17. Today, for the first time ever, the quiet man recounts his story to his daughter. His journey is interspersed with enigmatic dreams and pains that are rooted in the [...]
07 Oct
— 15:30
/ 109’
Cinema São Jorge Sala M. Oliveira
The Eclipse
Nataša Urban
2022
/Norway
/109’
A realizadora regressa ao eclipse como motivo e metáfora num filme paradoxalmente evocativo e pensativo sobre a sua educação durante a guerra na ex-Jugoslávia, à qual regressa no final do filme para recolher histórias e episódios da família e de conhecidos.
14 Oct
— 10:30
/ 78’
Culturgest Pequeno Auditório
The Pawnshop
Łukasz Kowalski
2022
/Poland
/78’
Jola e Wiesiek gerem provavelmente a maior loja de penhores da Europa em Bytom, na Polónia. Com o encerramento de minas e o desemprego a crescer, os dias de glória já passaram. A loja dá prejuízo, mas torna-se num pólo importante para a comunidade local.