The Film Club of Faro it joined forces with Teatro das Figuras and, on May 29th and 30th, it brings to the Algarve capital an extension of Indie Lisboa 2014, presenting films awarded in the most recent edition of the International Independent Film Festival.
On Thursday, the 29th, two films will be screened: «Amor, Plástico e Barulho», by the Brazilian Renata Pinheiro (2014), at 19 pm, and also «Matar a un hombre», by the Chilean Alejandro Fernandéz Almendras (00), which won this 2014th edition of Indie and received the Grande Premio Cidade de Lisboa.
The morning of the second day, May 30, will be dedicated to Indie Júnior, which celebrates 10 years of existence, with films more suitable for children, shown from 10:00 am: «Wool Clouds», by Jacob Streilein, «Trampoline» , by Maarten Koopman, 'Sand Dummy' by Pärtel Tall, 'Wind' by Robert Löbel, 'Guess What I'm Seeing' by Alexandra Nebel, 'Electric Soul' by Joni Männistö, 'Sounds of Nature' , by Simon Weber, “Mitopolis”, by Alexandra Hetmerová, and even “The Small Pot of Anatole”, by Eric Montchaud.
In the evening, from 19 pm onwards, three short films will be screened: «The figures engraved on the knife with sap from the banana trees», by Joana Pimenta (Best Portuguese Short in Indie 00), «Symphony No. 2014», by the Hungarian Réka Bucsi, and finally «Implausible Things» (New Talent Award), by the Portuguese Rita Macedo.
Closing this extension of Indie in the Algarve, at 22 pm, there will be a screening of the documentary “The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to João”, by the directors Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel.
With actor and director Luís Miguel Cintra as its protagonist, the 129-minute film, completed in 2013, "replaces the word and the image in open field", according to the jury of the Catholic Church at the independent film festival IndieLisboa, which distinguished the documentary with the Tree of Life award.
«It opens words and images to the refusal of everything superfluous and unnecessary. Need, urgency, today, to build a film like this, which is configured in the essentiality of images and words», refers the text signed by the judges, João Amaro Correia, Margarida Ataíde and Rui Martins.
See here the clip of «The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John»:
clip CO NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO JOHN portuguese from Joaquim Pinto Nuno Leonel on Vimeo.
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