PORTUGUESE COMPETITION
28.09.24
5.30pm – 01h45m
Casa de Cultura Jaime Lobo e Silva – Auditorium
TALAIAS (Portugal)
10:28
by Maria Raquel Atalaia
A boy in love with a girl goes to her house, but things don’t go well. Upon returning home, the boy meets a “talaia”, one of the beings that live in the forest.
ANA MORPHOSE (Portugal)
10:00
by João Rodrigues
A little girl reads herself to sleep. As she dozes off, the physical world starts melting into an alternate reality where the contents of a book rule over the laws of physics.
ALMA’S CONDITION (Portugal)
12:09
by Sara Naves
Alma wakes up every day with a new condition, suffering physical transformations that reflect her feelings of inadequacy and prevent her from having a normal daily routine.
THE LONG LEGGED MAN (Portugal)
9:00
by Vitor Hugo Rocha
In a blank space, a barrel organ player with pin-tipped feet gets bored. He takes the risk of tracing in the ground a dance that makes him see what he stopped listening.
TELSCHE (Portugal)
8:20
by Sophie Colfer, Ala Nunu
On the vast salt flats under dark clouds, a hole in the ground swallows the memory of a woman that Telsche longs to see again.
WILDFLOWER (Portugal)
5:00
by Carina Pierro Corso
A poetic essay about the undesirable, the lack of control and the duality that seeks to explore the different possibilities of interaction between humans and the uncontrollable side of nature.
COLD SOUP (Portugal)
9:50
by Marta Monteiro
A woman, victim of domestic violence, looks back at the years when she was married, recalling how difficult it was to stay afloat.
A TINY NUMBER (Portugal)
12:21
by Luc Lavault
As a prisoner in an Auschwitz outdoor commando, Rahmil escapes one day with a comrade. They have only a few apples in their hands and the forest as a witness.
DE IMPERIO (Portugal)
13:15
by Alessandro Novelli
A group of fugitives tries to find its way to the center of the building. Evading the surveillance, they go through the rooms of the Giants and witness their macabre routines.
PIETRA (Portugal)
13:08
by Cynthia Levitan
In the daydream about unlikely relationships, the flower – as delicate as it is revolutionary – is an act of love in the midst of the suffocation and embrace of a classically Portuguese neighborhood.
ALMOST FORGOTTEN (Portugal)
9:07
by Dimitri Mihajlovic, Miguel Lima
A woman wanders through the impermanence of her childhood memories, trying to rebuild the story of the house where her grandfather lived.
THE GIRL WHO WALKED ON SNOW
(Portugal/Spain)
3:03
by Bruno Carnide
In a distant place, the saddest of girls, afraid that her melancholy will taint everything around her, only dares to venture outside when it snows.
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