74th Cannes Film Festival, among the entries of which is the Portuguese film by Diogo Salgado “Noit Turva”. starts this tuesday at this location in the south of France…
In this issue, 24 films will be submitted to the official competition, including works by directors such as Italian Nanni Moretti, Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, French Jacques Audiar and American Sean Penn. Also distinguished are Frenchman Leos Carax (Annette, opening film), North American Wes Anderson (French Dispatch) and Dutchman Paul Verhoeven (Benedetta).
Participating in the short film competition is Noite turva, the first work by Portuguese filmmaker Diogo Salgado, who won the 2020 National Best Film Prize at the Curtas de Vila de Conde festival. Blurred Night is the result of a long film project by Diogo Salgadaa project that started three years ago, given funding difficulties and an emotional willingness to complete it, he told Lusa.
This short film is the first film by a 26-year-old director from Coimbra, and was started after studying at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, where he graduated in photography. The short film is a story about two boys playing in the forest, one of whom disappears by the pond at night.
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Also in the section of short films, in Cannes programs dedicated to cinematic projects that are not yet completed, are in the development and post-production stages, films will be shown to professionals “between light and nothing“Joana de Sousa, produced by Pedro Fernandez Duarte, and“ O end do Verão ”by Marco Veloso, producer at the Graduate School of Theater and Cinema.
The Quinzena de Realizadores, one of the festival’s parallel programs, will host the premiere of Diários de Otsoga by Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fasendeiro. The film was filmed in 2020, already in the midst of a complete pandemic, with actors Crista Alphaiate, Carloto Cotta and João Nunez Monteiro, and the script was signed by Mariana Ricardo, as well as Maureen Fasendeiro and Miguel Gomes, who signed a joint production for the first production. time.
Who will also be in Cannes is director David Pineiro Vicente., with the project of the first feature film entitled “Between the Past and the Future”, which was developed under the Cinéfondation program, and which will feature Portuguese-French films co-produced by O Som ea Fúria and La Belle. Affaire. Italian director Marco Belloccio will receive the Palme d’Or and screen the documentary “Marx può aspettare”.
This year, the jury headed by American director Spike Lee included Brazilian director Kleber Mendonsa Filho, American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop, South Korean actor Song Kang Ho, French actor Tahar Raheem. , French actress Melanie Laurent, French singer Mylene Farmer and Australian director Jessica Hausner. The festival will run until July 17, when the winners of the competitions will be announced.
