Cavalier Seul - Mariette Vincent (La Fémis)
School Meetings
Back from Erevan, where he represents his father for business, Jerome Kafedjian notices that the construction of the memorial which he had initiated has sopped. This memorial commemorating the Armenian genocide is strongly waited by this community. A mysterious stranger reveals him that his father is bankrupt and proposes him to make an arrangement in order to start the construction again.
Il giorno in cui niente successe - Ramón Alòs Sánchez (Scuola Nazionale di Cinema, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia)
School Meetings
May 13, 1935. Two children cycling round Dorset hills meet the History. Crashing into a motorbike, one of the two is injured and the motorcyclist goes into a coma and dies.
Does it was a mere road accident? The motorcyclist was one of the most famous men in the after-colonial England. A hero of the Great War. A mysterious and shifty man who dies in a simple and non romantic way: a common accident. The mystery doesn’t end with his dead. Till today, nobody knows what really happened that day.
(500) Days of Summer - Marc Webb
Official Selection - Out of Competition
22:00/ 13 Nov/ Congress Centre. An incurable romantic, Tom aspires to be an architect, but for now he’s writing messages for greeting cards. Summer, his boss’s new secretary, no longer believes in true love.
52 Per Cent - Rafal Skalski (The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School)
School Meetings
52 per cent is the ideal proportion of leg length to body height. This criterium is one of the most important for children getting accepted to the Russian Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg. Alla is has two months to improve her proportions. Will she be accepted into school?
A Film With No Flies On - Michal Poniedzielski (The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School)
School Meetings
A film about a fly’s life as such.
A Guerra Filmada
Cinema and its History
14:30 - 19:00 / 7 Nov. / Centro de Congressos - Uma ampla mostra de mais de 60 filmes documentais, muitos deles ocultos desde o final da guerra civil, exibidos exactamente como foram filmados, de uma perspectiva de todas as frentes envolvidas, sem quaisquer interpretações ou remontagens. Este turbulento percurso, filmado entre 1936 e 1939, compilado em A guerra filmada, revela-nos a realidade de um período da história do mundo que até agora apenas nos tinha chegado através de alguns noticiários nacionalistas espanhóis, politicamente autorizados.
A History of Violence - 2005
Tribute to David Cronenberg
Tom stall is a pillar of a small town community who runs a diner and lives a happy and quiet life with his wife and two children. but their lives are forever changed when stall thwarts an attempted robbery and is lauded as a hero by the media, attracting the attention of some mobsters who believe he is someone else.
About Me: A Musical - 1971 (Robert Frank)
CinemArt
12:00/ 14 Nov/ Centro de Congressos. About Me: A Musical was planned as a cinematic study of indigenous American music. Robert Frank decided instead to make the film about himself. An actress (Lynn Reyner) plays Frank. He examines his life symbolically, questioning the personal toll his work has taken and the value of his contribution as a photographer. His search for freedom is represented by the music.
Agreste - Filipe Magalhães (Universidade da Beira Interior)
School Meetings
“Agreste” is a visual essay based on the book “The Loneliness of Human Life”, written by William Alger circa 1867. Shot in the region of Trás-os-Montes, it is a take on William Alger’s inspiring vision of solitude, conveying his words into the medium of film.
Al primo soffio di vento - Franco Piavoli
Rare Filmmakers
19:00 / 9 Nov / Casino Estoril - A wordless, non-narrative account of a summer's day as appreciated by the residents of an estate in Lombardy, Italy. The family, despite living in a idyllic mansion, live their lives very much apart from one another.
Neither the film nor its director suggest any type of concrete interpretation, preferring that the audience filter the film's meaning through their own personal experiences.
