Chandigarh
India
Organised by the Embassy of Portugal Cultural Centre in India and Alliance Francaise Chandigarh, the Film Fest brings a taste of Portuguese-speaking cinema to Chandigarh.
1 EDITION IN CHANDIGARH
(shown here in chronological order)
5 SELECTED FILMS FOR CHANDIGARH
(shown here in alphabetical order)
6
Short film
min
A Place In Nowhere
Until one day… when the first shot was fired, everyone had to leave their homes.” In 1975 Ema was expecting the arrival of her first child in Angola. However, her tranquility was abruptly interrupted by a force that took away her comfort and changed her life forever.
Angola
Bárbara de Oliveira e João Rodrigues
2016
35
Documentary
min
Mangrove school
We went to research the conditions of the students in the guerrilla schools in the mangroves. Instead, we soon became ourselves the learners and the first lesson was how to walk. In the mangrove school the learning happens with the whole body.
Guinea-Bissau
Filipa César & Sónia Vaz Borges
2022
110
Documentary/Drama
min
Ana. Untitled
Stela, a young Brazilian actress, decides to make a work on the letters exchanged between Latin American plastic artists in the 70s and 80s. She travels to Cuba, Mexico, Argentina and Chile looking for her works and testimonies about the reality they lived during the dictatorships that most of these countries faced at the time. In the midst of the investigation, Stela discovers the existence of Ana, a young Brazilian artist who was part of this world, but disappeared. Ana went from southern Brazil, from a small town in the interior to Buenos Aires. Obsessed by the character, Stela decides to find her and find out what happened to her. A road movie about Latin American reality. The film won the 2020 Havana Film Festival and at the 6th BRICS festival in Goa for the best director.
Brazil
Lúcia Murat
2020