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Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days is about the special relationship between Regina Pessoa and her uncle. The film is a testament to her love for this eccentric, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
Some people are different, in spite of themselves. All they want is to resemble other people, to blend in with the crowd. Some spend their lives trying to do so, denying or trying to hide their difference. Others assume it and thus stand tall, thereby obtaining the place that they dream of in the hearts of others.
Under a gloomy sun, two characters look for adaptation.
A very special instrument assembled from 42 drawers, cabinets, and other furniture pieces generates sounds – mechanical, continuous, soft, noisy, and mysterious.
Loneliness is reward. Alone in a small empty apartment you feel a presence. You do not know what to do with it, no one, the apartment is empty, alone.
At a long table laden with traditional dishes, a family shares fond memories of an uncle, who fled Portugal’s dictatorship and became a garbage collector in Paris, in this film by Laura Gonçalves.
It’s like soot that rests on the walls of our head.
Five deities of power gather in an underground lair to discuss major topics about world domination and status-quo: Mr. Tactus, Mr. Olfactus, Mr. Paladaris, Mr. Auditivus and the head of the assembly, Mr. Visionarius. Visionarius has Machiavellian prospects for the future of mankind, but he is warned by the Angel Auditivus about the spiritual awakening present in some avenues of Western society.
Masterclass of Lea Vidakovic at ESAD.
This is the story of a sixty day long walk in Cape Verde. No mobile phone, no watch, no plans for what to do next – only the bare essentials in the backpack. Out traveller explores the mountains, the villages, the sea, a talking tortoise, the goats, the music, the dry haze, the people of Cape Verde and an essential part of himself.
Oh, little soldier, jaunting happily towards the war, you pay no heed to the red petal you carry, marking the ones who’ll fall. Such petal is the sign of the mustard yellow death that will smother you in the pestiferous, muddy trenches. Not, however, without introducing you to some of the damned that have left already, and who are waiting for you in the fields of desolation.
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
End of the line is a film based on real events that never happened, but that may happen, you never know… Any reality with purely coincidence is resemblance.
The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion. In a world where the idea of progress appears to be above all, this home floats.
An animated film adaptation of unhappy and cruel love.
In a surreal world where hearts can be deposited in banks so people can avoid falling in love, Natalia sets out on adventure with a man to help him find his stolen heart.
A harsh winter freezes the surface of a river, close to a house where two cousins live. Immersed in the cold wind that rises that day, the rudeness of their relationship grows, reaching its limit.
What if it there was a place where we could revisit the memories of a relationship? In this archive of remembrances we are guided through the story of Amélia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that come after a relationship has ended.
As a young boy I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. We spent many decades together. First, she offered me protection from the cold. As a teenager, she introduced me to the secrets of love. But as an adult, this love became flawed. I began to see behind my beloved’s facade. And I discovered her horrifying side.
While transitioning from male to female gender, Matia struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship with a heterosexual man.