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A Casa Don Bosco
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One hundred children live together in a small orphanage in Sri Lanka. One boy tries and fails to escape back home. One woman hired to translate for this film becomes a main character when her past is forced into the story. Living under precarious conditions, a new dormitory promises to improve their livelihood. Three stories, one Home.
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This is a movie about the story and incongruity of Francisco Félix de Souza, a famous and powerful man of the slave traffic. It’s about memory, the huge distance that makes the historical memory sometimes become into a memory based on fables, and how the first one works as our basement and on what we are and the second one can save us.
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The film The Suspicion is the most awarded Portuguese animation. It carries the audience for the trial of find the identity of the murderer, one of the four characters inside the carriage that is travelling to Vale Trilhado and it approaches to the detective stories.
In order to contribute for the improvement of knowledge on the development of the vector dengue and yellow fever, sequences of images show the life cycle of Aedes Aegypti. The film is a composition of real and virtual images, which describe the mosquito cycle emphasising the language of the Image with soundtrack.
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A sand animation based on the northeastern Brazilian culture that uses the Cordel tradition to tell a story of true love.
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It's been 193 days since Alice was last seen. Every day, her father, Mário, leaves home and follows the exact same route the day Alice disappeared. In his quest, Mário creates a video surveillance network on the places she might walk, the airport, anything that may provide a clue.
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A classic from the animation directed by the founder of AnimaMundi, one of the biggest animation festivals in the world realized every year in Brazil. A trilingual animated film in Portuguese, English and French. Various animation techniques are explored through observations of the animator at work.
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A story where the paint is the protagonist and flows through the screen in a ballet of colours and textures.
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Two little men float freely in the deep blue sky, tied to balloons. But then each decides the sky belongs to him.
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The Canadian Premier of Tom Hiller’s brilliant documentary film celebrates one of Portugal’s most famous exports: José Mourinho. Being José Mourinho is a documentary that explores the inner working of Mourinho’s mind digging through the outward expressions, which most consider aggression, to find the motives and inspirations that drive this ever mysterious and über confident coach.
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The film tells a story of Mariana, a depressing nurse working in Lisboa. She accompanies an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip to home. After she arrives in Cape Verde, she encounters the strange and enigmatic world. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama. There she finds that "she brought a living man among the dead."
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Stray Dog, a observation of a love relationship, makes use of intimate colors to portray a generation. The film narrates the encounter between Ciro, freshly graduated in Literature, who goes through an existential crisis marked by skepticism and lack of plans, and Marcela, an ambitious young model beginning her career who completely devotes herself to her job, thus postponing the accomplishment of any dream.
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One child interviews another in this charming and playful look at the magic and innocence of childhood self-realization.
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Control is the stamp in the life of Antonio Martins (Marco Ricca). As a respected theater critic, he embraces his career with devotion and dignity. His reviews translate his solid background and demonstrate a personality led by reason. Not a single detail around him escapes his observant analysis and his sharp reasoning, often full of cynicism. Everything and everyone seems to fit into the concepts he masters, even human relationships.
A fortuitous meeting at a bar introduces Antonio to a disturbing element to this order he feels so comfortable with: the lovely Inês (Lilian Taublib). Uninhibited, attractive and bearer of several unexpected aspects, Inês does not fit into Antonio’s rational schemes, therefore destabilizing him.
Inês keeps an ambiguous relationship with painter José Torres Campana (Felipe Ehrenberg), an older man who exerts a fascination on her in which Antonio cannot interfere. Jealousy, which penetrates the slots of the narrative through a few theatrical stagings – punctuating the plot –, completes the scenario so that Antonio’s imagination bursts into new possibilities.
The critic, the muse, and the painter become characters of a drama impregnated with desire and risk.
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Dominoes animates the tiles of this age-old game to illustrate an oddly shaped domino's struggle to belong. Set to tunes inspired by Brazil's chorinho music, the film gives a new spin to the old domino theory as the characters ultimately learn about openness, flexibility, cooperation... and sharing one's dots. This film is part of the ShowPeace series of lively animated films about conflict resolution. This series has received support from UNICEF and Justice Canada.
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The secret behind Brazilians’ expertise in soccer is the athletes’ ginga. An ability of the body which makes them good at dribbling, passing and making goals as if the other team didn’t exist. But ginga isn’t something that can be taught. It is something mythical, inherent to Brazilians. Ginga is a way of not taking anything too serious, using your feet, heels and thighs during a game and out of it. Various Brazilians, from different social levels and parts of Brazil, relate, in this documentary, their passion and ability in soccer and the importance ginga has in their lives.
Awards: Ginga was awarded Best Film for Popular Jury at the Brazilian Film Festival in Israel in 2005.
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A short feature film by 13 year old director Pavlo Marques-Vandiak, it is a story about an 11 year old girl who worries that her older brother’s uncontrollable adolescent behaviour will lead him down the path of destruction.
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Pay attention to cross the street, especially if you are a tomato!
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From director Miguel Gaudencio comes the story of Miguel, a Civil Engineer and workaholic, goes to work on Christmas day as he does every day of the week. But this Christmas day will be unlike any other. An accident lands Miguel alone and stranded inside a construction hole on the building site. With no signal on his mobile and nobody around Miguel looks inside his briefcase hoping to find something, anything that might help get him out of his hole. In his briefcase he finds a strange letter, a letter that leaves him with one burning ambition - get home.
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The son of a washer-woman is the target of jokes from the other boys because of the color of his skin. Adaptation from the homonymous story of Lima Barreto.
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ONE is a minimalist piece of animation about the origin of life
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Kids. Kids rejected. Kids who don't understand a society that don't understands them either. Kids not loved who are sometimes full of love to give that nobody wants. Kids with no family or with such families that it would be better to have none at all. Kids interned in institutions they hate and which don't do anything useful for them. Escaping kids and kids chased. Freedom.
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A children´s tale adapted to the brazilian life. Who´s affraid of the big bad wolf?
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Life of black ballet dancer Ismael Ivo, his performances, testimonies about dance and the social difficulties to the ones that come from a lower social class and overcomes obstacles in his profession, until he gets famous all around the world.
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An one hour documentary that takes you through a sociological and historical journey back in time to re-trace the footsteps of Joe Silvey, one of Canada’s forgotten pioneers. As a simple illiterate whaler hailing from a small island in the middle of the Atlantic, Joe was the first European to marry a native woman, to live in Stanley Park, to build his own fishing boat, and to hold the first seine net fishing licence in the West Coast. The documentary explains how Joe overcame danger, hardship and bigotry to play an important role in the birth and development of Vancouver and British Columbia in the late 1880’s.
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David is an young father going to travel to Dinamark. However, before that, David goes trough Portugal from Lisboa to the countryside because of his grandfather’s death. There, closely to Serra da Estrela, he is going to find some memories and his family, from whom he was apart for years.
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The vision of Song of Songs is life as a love. Two filmmakers interpret this erotic, sensual and ancient poem. This poem of hidden courtship becomes a monologue for a young woman and is transformed into a dialogue of imagery. It is an allegory for the search for wisdom, a search for God, a search that involves moving towards what our soul seeks.
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In the projects, or favelas, of Rio de Janeiro, former police officers, firefighters, retired army and community leaders have formed militias to fight the drug cartels. However, in the wake of violence in early 2007, it was reported that the militias were extorting innocent people in exchange for protection as well as charging for other services. "The Battle For Rio" investigates the lack of efficient public safety policies in the favelas and its repercussions throughout the city.
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The Thompson Stories is a short narrative film featuring a collection of impressions and memories of a six year old child as he experiences emigrating from Azores, Portugal. In 1963, along with his family he arrives in the cold and far away mining town of Thompson, Manitoba where he is strongly affected by the clear absence of his habitual community and language. This story is based on recollections of Almerinda Travassos.
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João Botelho’s film of tragedy and comedy is set in modern day Portugal filled with corruption, vacations and high society living. Each character and scene in the movie is very honest and shown without any embellishment whatsoever. The movie’s blunt honesty makes it tragic in a way although comical relief can be found throughout.
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Vagabonds, Drifters & Gypsies begins as a road movie through the vast North American landscape where the experience of being on a journey triggers a u-turn into an exploration of the self. The narrator’s father is a vagabond, driven by nostalgia for a subjective account of a past that may have only existed in his mind. The narrator anxiously anticipates inheriting these same gypsy-like drifting tendencies, fearing how they might drive him away from his own young family as they did his father, from him. The final confrontation with his roots, his genes and his landscapes drives the
filmmaker to approach his father in the quest for redemption.
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The future perspective is not splendid for a teenagers group from Zona J, Lisboa. Sons of labourers and housekeepers, they have a hard life. One of them, Tó, black boy son of Angolans, fall in love with Carla, a white girl and they decide to live in Angola together.
Thursday June 28th 2007
6:ooPM
Atrás das Nuvens
Behind the Clouds
Jorge Queiroga
Filmes Do Tejo II
Portugal 2006
Feature Film-Longa Metragem
0:83:00
Paulo is a 12-year-old boy who lives in Lisbon with his mother. One day, he finds a bundle of photographs that includes pictures of the grandfather he’s never met. Paulo decides to search for him, even if it means deceiving his mother. Using one of the pictures as his guide, Paulo arrives at the Alentejo. There he meets his grandfather Miguel, an eccentric and solitary man. Together, they set off on a fantastic journey to unlock the family’s secrets and sorrows. This film of family ties and redemption will inspire dreamers of all ages.
Thursday June 28th 2007
8:30PM
Noite Escura
Dark Night
João Canijo
Madragoa Filmes
Portugal / France 2003
0:94:00
On a dark winter’s night in the Portuguese countryside, a new working day is beginning at a family-run hostess bar. A husband and wife team manages the business; their two daughters entertain and seduce the clients. Theirs is a world of false appearances and self-deception. Can their dreams for a different life be saved?
Friday June 29th 2007
6:00PM
História Trágica com um Fim Feliz
Tragic Story with a Happy Ending
Regina Pessoa, Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Patrick Eveno, Abi Feijo & Marcel Jean
Canada 2005
00:07:39
A young girl finds acceptance by embracing her own difference. This whimsically lyrical film has the timeless charm of an old fable - one whose theme is difference and self-affirmation. By means of a special technique using photocopies with images scratched into India ink on glossy paper, the story is conveyed through imagery evoking the rich texture of a woodblock print. Complemented by a lively soundtrack with a rhythmic beat, the filmmaker has created a world of contrasts within which our heroine explores her sense of self.
Helena Num Acto
Helena in one Act
Manuel Bernardo Cabral
Cineact-Produções Audiovisuais e Novos Media, Lda
Portugal 2006
Fiction-Short
00:20:00
From her balcony, Helena waits for her grandson James on a cold Christmas Eve. Her rocking chair sways back and forth, slightly and smoothly. Children run in and out of the house, full of excitement. In spite of the bitter cold and her family’s insistence that she wait inside, she lingers outdoors, somewhere in a far-off world. The presence of her son Robert offering a blanket brings her back to reality. Her rocking chair sways back and forth, slightly and smoothly. Helena continues waiting for her grandson James.
Demasiado a Sério
Too Serious
Miguel Cunha
Media Forma
Portugal 2007
Drama
0:16:00
This short films portrays the weaving of relationships after a life altering moment occurs that leaves the main character confused. She believes she is falling in love with the one person who saves her life but this might just be an attempt to save herself from herself.
Falta-Me
Wanting
Cláudia Varejão
Filmes Do Tejo II
Portugal 2006
Documentary
0:20:00
Na turbulência da vida urbana acontece-nos esqueçer ou subestimar coisas que nos fazem falta, ausências que nos suspendem, adiam, ou até que nos magoa. Este documentário pede a setenta habitants da area metropolitana de Lisboa are asked to write on a small blackboard what they are missing most in life. The answers are from people of different social backgrounds, different ages and several activities that end up making an intimate portrait of the contemporary Portuguese society.
Lições de Fotografia
Photography Lessons
Directed by Kelly O’Brien
Produced by Gerry Flahive
Written by Kelly O’Brien
Canada 2006
Documentary
00:12:00
This is the story of a Portuguese immigrant and his hotshot son. Both are professional photographers, but their subjects are a study in contrast. José Pimentel photographs weddings and communions, and prepares passport pictures for local seniors; his son George chases glamorous celebrities at film festivals around the world. Though sometimes blinded by the spotlight, George still enjoys working alongside José at the family photo studio. Working in two different worlds, father and son find common ground behind the lens. Both try to capture something authentic and meaningful through the art of the portrait.
A Vã Glória da Memoria
The Vain Glory of Memory
Miguel Rocha
Portugal/ Canada 2006
Documentary
00:16:00
An exploration into my relationship with the city of my birth, Porto and two other tripeiros, the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira and my father. A voyage occurs through the labyrinth of memories and reflections, from aspiring to be like someone else coming to terms with being myself.
Arte de Pedra
Touchstone: The Rock Art of the Coa Valley
Luis Proença
Hope Media Productions
USA
Documentary 2004
00:30:00
Touchstone - Rock Art at Côa Valley is a half-hour documentary on the subject of Paleolithic figures discovered along ten miles of the Côa riverbeds in Portugal. Since the site’s discovery in 1995, it has been regarded as the world’s most important archeological complex of outdoor engraved Paleolithic rock art. These animal and human figures represent some of the earliest known attempts by humankind to record and express ideas. This site is officially recognized by the international Archeological community. This documentary brings the rock art of the Côa Valley to life and shares it with the world.
Friday June 29th 2007
8:00PM
Aniversário
Anniversary
Paul America
Jimmy Mor
Marcos Moscat
2006
00:15:00
This film was made over the course of three weeks as an entry for the Seeds of Tolerance contest hosted by Current TV. It was originally intended to be a piece about a multi-faith and pacifist community center called The Peace Abbey. While filming there, we learned that September 11th, 2006 was not only the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks but also the 100th anniversary of the day Gandhi started his peace movement. We left the Abbey for NYC to let people know about this poetic coincidence. What lessons can be taken from this day, what did it symbolize? Violence, fear, division, ruin? Peace, enlightenment, unity, hope?
Gatos
Cats
Gali Meiri
Brazil & Israel
Documentary 2005
0:52:00
Gatos follows four young Brazilians from a small village, one just recently discovered by tourists. Zalela, the talented Capoeira player, regrets not taking a long-lost opportunity to leave for a better life elsewhere. Another chance presents itself; will he go this time? Dum and Joyse, both 15 years old, are dealing with early parenthood. Will their love survive the birth of their baby? Dror, an Israeli tourist, falls in love with Tatiana. Can they overcome their cultural differences?
Passe o Presente
Pass the Gift
Rafael Dias and Ruth S. Fernandes
Canada
Documentary 2007
00:60:00
Two adventurers take off for a journey across Canada. Playing the role of Santa Clause bringing gift to unsuspecting people in the hope of spreading to them the Magic of Christmas. But it wasn’t all angels and stars this adventure proves harder then first imagined; that the Holiday Season is not always mercifull. They face the obstacles of convincing people to not only to receive a gift but to give a gift- that’s where the real challenge began. Do they convince people to play along with them? Will they miss the only train out of town? Do they fulfill their dream?
Saturday June30th 2007
5:00PM
Pukiki, Os Americanos Portugueses de Hawai’i
Pukiki, The Portuguese Americans of Hawai’i
Luis Proença
Hope Media Productions
USA 2003
Documentary
00:45:00
In 1876, the Reciprocity Treaty was signed between the Kingdom of Hawaii and the United States of America, opening a huge market for Hawaii’s sugar plantations. Hawaii needed skilled workers fast; the Portuguese responded. Thousands arrived from the islands of Madeira, Azores and Cape Verde between 1878 and 1913, changing Hawaii forever.
Today, some third- and fourth-generation Portuguese-Hawaiians question their past. With their language lost and their contributions heavily woven into the multicultural fabric of Hawaii, many find themselves wondering if they are Portuguese, Hawaiian or American.
O Menino Engraixador
The Shoeshine Boy
Bill Moniz
Vista-Global Productions
Canada 2006
Documentary
00:60:00
The Shoeshine Boy chronicles how the murder of an immigrant child - shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques - made an unprecedented impact on Toronto in the late 1970s. It was at this time declared that the city had come of age, no longer Toronto the Good.
This documentary covers the 12-day period from Emanuel’s disappearance on July 28, 1977. Through extensive use of archival footage, re-enactments and interviews, this film recalls the horror of the crime and its profound effect, to this day, on the lives of people in the Portuguese Community and in the City of Toronto.
Saturday June 30th 2007
6:30PM
O Delfim
Delfim
Fernando Lopes
Gémini Films
Portugal & France 2003
Drama
00:88:00
In fascist Portugal of the late sixties a rich landowner leads an idle life of hunting (animals and women), drinking and enjoying himself. He owns everything and everybody around him not only the objects, the horses, the dogs, the land and the lagoon but also the people like his servants and his own beautiful wife whom he keeps secluded inside his house like an emulator of the old feudal lords. The triangle formed by him, his wife and his manservant is an ambiguous one and the tensions produced within it end up in a tragic outcome.
Saturday June 30th 2007
8:00PM
Ganhar a Vida
Earning a Living
João Canijo
Atalanta Filmes
Portugal 2001
01:14:00
When a Portuguese teenager is killed in a gang fight on a housing estate on the outskirts of Paris, nobody wants to know - except Cidalia, a thirty-six year-old cleaning woman. Against the collective embarrassment and silence of the Portuguese community, Cidalia wages a one-woman campaign for the truth. In the struggle, she loses job, friends, family - but gains a life of her own.
Sunday July 1st 2007
3:00PM
For da Lei
Outlaw
Leonar Areal
Videamus
Portugal 2006
Documentary
00:84:00
Teresa and Helena are a lesbian couple who challenged the law by trying to get married. But the publicity brought them even more difficulties and discrimination. These two mothers - and their two daughters - are an outlaw family. For them housing, school, and work can become major problems.
Sunday July 1st 2007
5:00PM
Rasganço
The Rip
Madragoa Filmes
Gemini Films
Drama and Crime/Gangster
Portugal
01:40:00
Edgar, a mysterious young man, arrives at the prestigious, meritocratic University of Coimbra while the students are protesting against an increase in fees. Edgar wants to return to his legal studies and is looking for a job to make ends meet. During a typical rasganco ceremony, in which students rip each other’s university robes, Edgar meets Ana Rita, a middle-class student, and seduces her. Ana Rita is not his only lover.
