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Chandigarh

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.

5 SELECTED FILMS FOR CHANDIGARH

(shown here in alphabetical order)

A Place In Nowhere

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

Mangrove school

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

Ana. Untitled

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

Rosinha and Other Wild Animals

108

Documentary

min

Rosinha and Other Wild Animals

Explores the Portuguese Colonial Exhibition held in Porto in 1934. A pair of researchers piece together a picture of an event officially presented as a showcase of the southern European country's foreign achievements.

Portugal

Marta Pessoa

2023

Kalunga

22

Short film

min

Kalunga

From a place far from home, Lara is driven by enigmatic dreams to fulfill a spiritual birth ritual that will take her along with her dead aunt back to Africa.

Mozambique

Lara Sousa

2018

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