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- Love found and love lost, families that start to disappear and families yet to build, memories that become diluted and things impossible to forget, the sea of Portugal, the lakes of Berlin, the burden of a shared colonial past in a trip beyond the comfort zone, new houses, new endings, new lives, demonstrations, games of basketball, solitude and friendship. Everything that life is made of, everything we carry with us, everything we leave behind.
- Filmmaker Susana Sousa Dias traces Portugal's period of fascism from 1926 until 1974.
- Within an image, another one is always hiding. Using only archive footage and without words, Still Life aims to rediscover and delve into the opacity of images made during the 48 years (1926-1974) of Portuguese dictatorship (news, war footage, propaganda documentaries, photos of political prisoners and also previously never seen rushes) in order to foster new interpretations.
- Red Africa relates the history of the influence exerted by the USSR over many African states between 1960 and 1990, working from extraordinary archival footage filmed by Soviet operators. The subtle editing of restored images reveals the hidden agenda of the USSR which, under the cloak of generosity, was aspiring to expand its socialist "paradise".
- Just after the Second World War, 5,000 young children were sent from Austria to stay with host families in Portugal, where they could recover from the violence of war. They were often welcomed in by well-to-do families with domestic staff living in sunny villas, and for most of the children this was a holiday in paradise. The contrast with their living conditions at home, and the huge difference between the lives of rich and poor in Portugal in this period, made a deep impression on the young Austrians.
- How many members of a family get dragged into the web of the political police on the arrest of a single political prisoner? How do you give form to someone who disappeared without having had a historical existence? Taking as its starting point the photographs taken by the Portuguese political police during the Salazar dictatorship and testimonies from those close to an assassinated communist activist, Luz Obscura invents a form that reveals how an authoritarian system operates within the family intimacy and recreates the feeling of a family's broken identity.
- In a hot summer morning in 1444, in the fishing village of Lagos, southern Portugal, a group of African people was disembarked. In the field next to the port, they were given away as slaves to the local noblemen and merchants. For the next 400 years, more than six million Africans would be trafficked in Portuguese ships to Europe and across the Atlantic.
- A first feature film that engages in a process of knowledge sharing between two women with different occupations - sex work and cinematographic work - that try to start a dialogue, while both filming and allowing themselves to be filmed.
- About the memory and the present of Fordlandia, the company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rain forest in 1928. His aim was to break the British rubber monopoly and produce this material in Brazil for his car production in the United States. Today, the remains of construction testify to the scale of the failure of this neocolonialist endeavor that lasted less than a decade. Nowadays, Fordlandia is a space suspended between times, between the 20th and 21st centuries, between utopia and dystopia, between visibility and invisibility: architectural buildings of steel, glass, and masonry still remain in use while traces of indigenous life left no marks on the ground. Although Fordlandia is well-known due to the brief Fordian period, one must not forget the history either before or after. Giving voice to the inhabitants who claim the right to write their own story and reject the ghost town label, Fordlandia Malaise blends together archival imagery, drone footage, tales and narratives, myths and songs.
- Unal is a village of rice producers whose inhabitants played a crucial role in Guinea-Bissau's liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism. They were the first to engage in the armed uprising, mobilizing their ancestral spirits, the Irãs - the natural land-owners to whom they pay reverence - into the guerilla. Still today, every gesture of the rice cycle - from plowing to harvesting - is haunted by memories of the war. A trauma that is also inscribed in their present- day rituals, bodies, landscapes, and techno music. In the war's aftermath, a group of soldiers got possessed by a messianic vision, "The Shadow", that gave them the power to foresee the future and heal their communities with bush plants through talismanic writings.
- In a isolated village in Alentejo, a conflict is experienced. José Vitorino, one of the biggest landowners in the region rich in prehistoric monuments, plans to build a luxurious manor on a site of ancient stones, a place of devotion and practice of sacred rites. Indifferent to the protests of the people, who believe in the magical powers of the "holy stones" and attribute to their destruction the prolonged drought that has been felt in the region, Jose Vitorino hires an architect to make the project for the new house. On Christmas Eve, in the midst of winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a tapir, an altar of bloody sacrifices in the earliest times of prehistory, unleashes a nefarious spell. A struggle "against time" is initiated to nullify the effects of the defective ritual.
- Chronicles of rural life, misadventures from the past century, fights one must win to muster misery and resistance against servitude and wage labor in the South of Portugal.
- My family emigrated to France in the 1960s, but soon after my mother was forced to return. Maybe that's why we moved house eight times and took refuge whenever possible in the village where the French family was on vacation. This restlessness has been in my dreams since then and never left them. It is through the images of these childhood dreams and places that I try to understand if there is a possible geography for someone with a story that seems to belong nowhere.