The Caminhos Festival, which will take place in Coimbra from 5 to 19 November, will screen 152 films in a program that aims to highlight the best of Portuguese cinema produced over the past year.
In the main competitive part of the festival, among others, “Alma Viva”, a film of Portuguese-French origin by Christel Alves Meira, who will represent Portugal at the Oscars, as well as “Fogo Fátuo” by Joao Pedro Rodrigues and “Mato Seco em Chamas” by Joan Piment and Aderly Queiroz announced the organization.
The highlight of the animation is João González’s Ice Dealers, which won the Best Short Film award at Cannes Critics’ Week.
As far as documentaries are concerned, there will be previews of Viagem ao Sol by Ansgar Schäfer and Susana Sousa Diaz, Périphérique Nord by Paulo Carneiro and SITA – The Life and Times of Sita Valles by Margarida Cardoso.
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“Our goal is to be able to present the greatest possible variety of productions, as well as the most outstanding films of the Portuguese film scene, year after year,” festival director Thiago Santos told Lusa.
Focusing on more experimental approaches and the search for new languages in cinema, Outros Olhares will feature, among others, Ana Sofia Fonseca’s Cesária Évora and Marie Carré’s Objetos de Luz. and Acacio de Almeida, “Um Corpo que Dança” by Marco Martins and “Indiginatu” by Velket Bungue.
The festival, which is divided between the Casa do Cinema de Coimbra and the Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (TAGV), continues to focus on the competitive part dedicated to cinema created in an academic context, with a national and international dimension.
“The selection of essays is widely represented and attracts more and more schools,” said Thiago Santos, highlighting the very positive evolution in the quality of films made in this context.
This year, in connection with the 200th anniversary of Brazil’s independence, the lusophonic films section is dedicated to this country, and there are several works dedicated to “Brazilian society and its injustices,” the official said.
At the opening ceremony of the festival on November 5, the Cinema will show a restored copy of Histórias Selvagens by Antonio Campos, a 1978 work filmed in Montemor o Velho depicting the post-revolutionary period. Portuguese.
At the closing ceremony, which will be held at the Convento São Francisco, Victor Torpedo and The Pop Kids will score the 1920s film Hipnotismo ao Domicilio by Reinaldo Ferreira.
