Caminhos Mundiais – 2019/11/26 – 22h00
Mini-Auditório Salgado Zenha – Piso 0 AAC
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The grumpy factory employee Hans Himmelreich has to travel behind the Iron Curtain into a profoundly communist Czechoslovakia of the sixties to have his deceased grandmother buried. Despite prejudice he unexpectedly finds happiness in this Sudeten German province.
Caminhos Mundiais – 2019/11/26 – 22h00
Mini-Auditório Salgado Zenha – Piso 0 AAC
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Their goal: to save refugees from drowning. For this idea, the crew of the MISSION LIFELINE not only has to endure investigations and legal proceedings in their hometown Dresden. Even at sea, in an attempt to save lives, their project is increasingly turning into a fight for the European idea.
Caminhos Mundiais – 2019/11/27 – 22h00
Mini-Auditório Salgado Zenha – Piso 0 AAC
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A man, caught in a vicious circle of self-accusation and self-pity, tries to find relief by surrendering to a higher entity.
Caminhos Mundiais – 2019/11/24 – 22h00
Mini-Auditório Salgado Zenha – Piso 0 AAC
Em nossas páginas no Instagram ou no Facebook, mostramos apenas a melhor parte de nós mesmos, a parte “bonita” de nossas vidas. Nos escondemos nessa farsa. Estamos tão imersos no processo de criação da nossa personalidade virtual ideal que nos esquecemos da vida real. Esquecemos a simples verdade de que a beleza está no interior.
On our Instagram or Facebook pages, we show only the best part of ourselves, the “beautiful” part of our lives. We hide in this fake. We are so immersed in the process of creating our ideal virtual personality that we forget about real life. We forget the simple truth that beauty is inside.
The film subtilely focuses on a social issue that has global reach: how we perceive and judge ourselves and the others in a world dominated by social media, which demands perfect beauty and instant gratification.
‘American Mirror – Intimations of Immortality’ was most awarded film at its premiere on October 21, 2018, at the 5th DOC LA Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival, garnering Best Innovative Film, Best Composer, Best Cinematography and Parajanov-Vartanov Award.A jury presided over by two-time Academy award-winner Paul Haggis for Fabrique Du Cinema Awards (presented by Fabrique Du Cinema, the leading film magazine of Italy, bestowed on the film the Best International Documentary award in Rome, December 15th, 2018. Besides some others wins, the film has been a Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2019 Official Selection, Finalist to the Supreme Jury Award and Winner of Special Jury Mention, among other almost forty official selections around the world in 2019. It has received the Audience Award of the 6th Ierapetra Documentary Film Festival, biggest documentary-only festival in Greece, as also the Michel Foucre Award for Best Directing.
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Oscar-winning screen icon Susan Sarandon and painter Tigran Tsitoghdzyan discuss how the apparently in conflict values of beauty and aging are perceived in our social-media obsessed society, as he tries to limn her portrait during a timeless sitting session in his atelier in New York City. With this film the director, Arthur Balder, sets in motion his theory on poetics of cinematic art, by attempting to create the deep conflicts of creativity in a non-linear, challenging story-telling scheme. The fictionalformulation of thought-processes, which can be called memories but also ‘omens’ and other sort of ‘visions’, imagery occurring in the internal eye in connection with the unconscious and entirely ‘subjective’, are the quintessential substance of the director’s final result. ‘Intimations of Immortality’ is a reference taken from British Romantic poet William Wordsworth’s ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’. For Wordsworth poetry was all about the ‘memories’ we keep from our most deeply felt living hours.
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‘American Mirror: Intimations of Immortality’ aims to expand our ordinary perception of time as the director introduces ‘a documentary on the subconscious’. From this perspective these characters -an artist, muses painted by him, the NYC society as a catalyzer- transcend the banausic pace of the world surrounding them, joining in a kind of shared visionary creative process, as if engulfed in each other’s dream. The director lays out the dream-like narratives of both the artist and his haunting muses -main parts assigned to Susan Sarandon and Florence Faivre-, whom Tigran paints, or dreams to paint. Most reality-engaged scenes are the epitome of the everyday metropolis-world in which the artist’s self apparently wanders without a clear aim. In fact, what follows the opening sequence of the awakening could be interpreted as just a dream within a dream, being the whole proceedings a feverish thought-process. The director draws us in with an intriguing story, a reality transfigured into surreal perception, that actually embeds a meditation on something far deeper: the internal frictions of subconscious, never-resolved conflicts which are the true motor of creative impulsiveness. But through his presentation of the unconscious right at the beginning of the film, the director choses an artistic direction that he would follow hereafter with unwavering determination despite challenging the canons of nowadays ‘conscious’ and ‘mainstream’ documentary filmmaking until the last frame of the film.
‘American Mirror – Intimations of Immortality’ aims to expand our ordinary perception of time as the director introduces ‘a documentary on the unconscious’. From this perspective these characters -an artist, muses painted by him, the NYC society as a catalyzer- transcend the banausic pace of the world surrounding them, joining in a kind of shared visionary creative process, as if engulfed in each other’s dream. The director lays out the dream-like narratives of both the artist and his haunting muses -main parts assigned to Susan Sarandon and Florence Faivre-, whom Tigran paints, or dreams to paint. Most reality-engaged scenes are the epitome of the everyday metropolis-world from which Tigran’s innermost self wishes to stray. In fact, what follows the opening sequence of the awakening could be interpreted asjust a dream within a dream, being the whole proceedings a feverish thought-process of the still-unredeemed artist. The director draws us in with an intriguing story that actually embeds a meditation on something far deeper: the internal frictions of the unconscious, never-resolved conflicts which are the true motor of creative impulsiveness.But through his presentation of the artist’s self-unconscious suffering right at the beginning of the film, the director choses an artistic direction that he would follow hereafter with unwavering determination despite challenging the canons of nowadays ‘conscious’ and ‘mainstream’ documentary filmmaking until the last frame of the film.
‘Intimations of Immortality’ is a reference taken from the ode of British Romantic poet William Wordsworth, ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’. For Wordsworth poetry was all about the ‘memories’ we have. So is long to explain, but this has become a revelation to the director’s craft as an essential part of filmmaking:
the reconstruction of deep thought-processes, which we can call memories but also ‘omens’ and other sort of’visions’, imagery occurring in the internal eye of the subject, entirely ‘subjective’.
Caminhos Mundiais – 2019/11/27 – 22h00
Mini-Auditório Salgado Zenha – Piso 0 AAC
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Germany, at the end of WWII. The Red Army fight for every inch of ground in the streets of the city. Greta and her family are hiding in a cellar hoping for mercy. Greta’s father, however, intuits for a very good reason that the Soviets will take brutal revenge. The short film “Irgendwer” (“Someone”) shows that a beginning is still possible, always and everywhere. The film is based on a true story.
Caminhos Mundiais – 2019/11/25 – 22h00
Mini-Auditório Salgado Zenha – Piso 0 AAC
“Vou Te Contar” é uma curta-metragem feita inteiramente com vídeos disponíveis no YouTube. A curta dá voz a mulheres brasileiras com diferentes percursos que partilham suas próprias histórias na Internet, criando uma colcha de retalhos de histórias que abordam questões como machismo, racismo e identidade de género.
“Let Me Tell You” is a narrative that relies on YouTube videos from female Brazilian YouTubers only. In the short film, women from diverse backgrounds have the chance to share their stories for a wider audience.
Caminhos Mundiais – 2019/11/26 – 22h00
Mini-Auditório Salgado Zenha – Piso 0 AAC
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A strange deathlike creature roams around grandpa Dakota. The patriarch knows it’s time to call on the members of his tribe. A family, his family, atypical and dismantled will then have to reunite. Will they arrive in time to share a last moment with their clan chief?
Caminhos Mundiais – 2019/11/23 – 22h00
Mini-Auditório Salgado Zenha – Piso 0 AAC
My name is Lisa and I am 10. I am from France but my folks are all from Portugal. A few days ago my dad told me he was going away because of water in his lungs or something like that. Any ways, I don’t believe his story. More likely the blonde lady from “the comete ???” whose going to take him away, I saw him, he tore a picture so mom does not see her. Liar, liar pants on fire!!! I saw him … Not fair, he promised to fix up the bathroom. He give me his word …
My name is Lisa and I am 10. I am from France but my folks are all from Portugal. A few days ago my dad told me he was going away because of water in his lungs or something like that. Any ways, I don’t believe his story. More likely the blonde lady from “the comete ???” whose going to take him away, I saw him, he tore a picture so mom does not see her. Liar, liar pants on fire!!! I saw him … Not fair, he promised to fix up the bathroom. He give me his word …
Caminhos Mundiais – 2019/11/27 – 22h00
Mini-Auditório Salgado Zenha – Piso 0 AAC
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Willing to pay the price for a new life, a man stops his car in the middle of nowhere and forces his father out, leaving him all alone in the woods; Haunted by his regrets, he then tries to cancel the agreement and bring his father back. What a surprise: there is no such thing.