It has cinema and literature, although the intention is not to show only films that are adaptations of books. But the International Film and Literature Festival of Olhão (FICLO), which will take place from April 4th to 13th, in various spaces in this city, will have much more – even the opportunity to taste film.
The literary dimension of cinema – and vice versa – will be explored over ten days in a festival that will have many world premieres of very recent films, but also of very old ones, the presence of writers, a bookstore component, film tours , workshops, masterclasses, artistic installations and performances.
And there won't even be a lack of very original proposals, such as the possibility of «eat a movie after watching it», according to the festival's organizers. At the opening session of the event, which will take place on April 4 at the Olhão Auditorium, chef Adérito Silva will create a menu inspired by the film “The Gentle Indifference of the World”, by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, which the public will be able to taste. , after the movie.
FICLO is a unique festival in the region, «unique in the country and rare in Europe», which will be promoted by the Cineclube de Tavira and the Câmara de Olhão, with the support of “365Algarve”, the Algarve's cultural and tourist entertainment program in low season.
The action will spread over several spaces in Olhão, with the Municipal Auditorium being “the mother house”, according to Débora Pinho Mateus, co-director of the festival. Re-Criativa República 14 and Sociedade Recreativa Progresso Olhanense will also host the exhibition of films and other initiatives of the FICLO program. The books themselves can be found in the Municipal Market and in Sul, Sol e Sal.
The idea is not “to have a festival of adaptations, although we are not against them. But we are also looking for other symbiosis», explained Débora Pinho Mateus.
Thus, in addition to some adaptations, there are films that are inspired by a specific poem, others that draw on literary universes such as Jules Verne, Joseph Conrad and Leão Tolstoi and others that, despite not having a direct connection, refer us to certain works (see full program below).
The festival will be based on an international competition format, in which ten films will be screened. Of these, six will be presented in national premiere and one of them in preview.
At the same time, there will be two cycles, one dedicated to Kira Muratova, a director “who died last year and has been quite forgotten”, despite having directed her first films in the 60s. In Portugal, few people know the work of Muratova, who, despite having lived most of her life in the Soviet Union, “saw her first films censored for 20 years by the Soviet authorities” and was “the only director to have a film banned during the Perestroika era”.
At FICLO, "the greatest retrospective of this director's work to date in Portugal" will be made, with the exhibition of nine of her works, made between 1967 and 2012, four of them in national premiere.
There will also be a cycle dedicated to Swedish cinema, which will include a work by Ingmar Bergman (“The Seventh Seal”, 1957), but where contemporary filmmakers predominate. According to Candela Vara, president of the Cineclube de Tavira and co-director of FICLO, the idea was to present a “a little fresher offer”.
“We didn't want to have a very hermetic offer. Sweden has a long tradition of cinema. We have a Bergman, but we also have a Roy Anderssson movie, which is much fresher. We also have a film that enters into that archetype of vampire films that are from the neighborhoods and not from the castles», he said.
One of the works in competition will also be presented in this cycle, the science fiction film “Aniara”, by Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja, directors who will be present in Olhão.
The public will also be able to count on Special Screenings of films chosen by the organization “that do not fit into any of the cycles” and which include several national premieres.
One of them will be the film “Agatha e les Lectures Illimitées”, directed by writer Marguerite Duras in 1981.
The writers will, moreover, have a place at the festival – as was required in an event that is also dedicated to literature. As part of the Obra Criativa cycle, the organizers challenged Gonçalo M. Tavares, Alexandra Lucas Coelho and Nuno Moura to write a text “that would enter into a dialogue with a silent film of their choice.
Gonçalo M. Tavares chose to write a text inspired by the film “Tabu”, by FW Murnau, from 1931. Alexanadra Lucas Coelho, for her part, chose the work “Limite”, by Mário Peixoto (1930). Nuno Moura, in partnership with Candela Vara, will write a text that will dialogue with the film “Juha”, directed by Aki Kaurismäki in 1999.
In other words, there will be plenty of opportunities to arrange a meeting or discover the more or less direct links between cinema and literature, in a ten-day festival in Olhão.
Photos: Hugo Rodrigues|Sul Informação and Chamber of Olhão
Complete Program:
international competition
Municipal Auditorium of Olhão
Aniara, by Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja (Sweden, Denmark) [National Premiere] – with the presence of the directors
Little Crusader, by Václav Kadrnka (Czech Republic) [National Premiere] – with the presence of the director
In Praise of Nothing, by Boris Mitic (Serbia) [National Premiere] – with the presence of the director
The Wild Boys, by Bertrand Mandico (France)
Our Madness, by João Viana (Portugal, France, Mozambique) with the presence of the director
Serbenka, from Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia)
Scary Mother, by Ana Urushadze (Georgia, Estonia) [National Premiere]
Petra, by Jaime Rosales (Spain) [Preview]
The Gentle Indifference of the World, by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan) [National Premiere] – with the presence of the director
Delta, by Oleksandr Techynskyi (Ukraine, Germany) [National Premiere]
Producers Cycle
Kira Muratova
Municipal Auditorium of Olhão & Sociedade Recreativa Progresso Olhanense
This year, FICLO dedicates a cycle to Kira Muratova, a filmmaker as private as it is forgotten, who died last year. One of the most independent directors we know, she never gave in, even though her first films were censored for 20 years by the Soviet authorities. She was the only director to have a film banned at the time of Perestroika (The Asthenic Syndrome, 1989).
Considered by critic Jonathan Rosebaum as “the greatest living Russian filmmaker”, in a 2017 article. FICLO will bring nine films by Muratova to Olhão, the most complete retrospective ever held in Portugal.
Brief Encounters (1967)
The Long Farewell (1971)
Getting to Know the Big, Wide World (1978)
Change of Fate (1987)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) [National Premiere]
Three Stories (1997) [National Premiere]
Chekhovian Motifs (2002)
The Tuner (2004) [National Premiere]
Eternal Homecoming (2012) [National Premiere]
With the support of the Center Dovzhenko Ukraine
Guest Country Cycle – Sweden
Municipal & Republic Auditorium 14
The program includes films chosen from Swedish cinematography, aimed at a younger audience. Highlight for Let the Right One In, 2009, nominated for the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film and based on a book by writer John Ajvide Lindqvist – the same author of the story that gave rise to the film Border, awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.
About Violence (Concerning Violence), by Goran Olsson (2014)
On the Border, by Ali Abbasi (2018)
Let me in (Let the Right One In), by Tomas Alfredson (2009)
Songs from the Second Floor, by Roy Andersson (2000)
The Seventh Seal, by Ingmar Bergman (1957)
(The cycle also includes the science fiction film Aniara, which is also part of the Official Competition)
With the support of the Swedish Embassy, the Swedish Consulate in Tavira and Tavira Lawyers.
Creative Work Cycle
Municipal Auditorium of Olhão
Gonçlo M. Tavares – Tabu (USA, 1931), by FW Murnau
Alexandra Lucas Coelho – Limite (Brazil, 1930), by Mário Peixoto
Nuno Moura & Candela Vara – Juha (Finland, 1999), by Aki Kaurismäki
Special Screenings
Municipal Auditorium, Progresso Olhanense & Republic 14
Ana Elephant Sitting Still, by Hu Bo (China, 2018)
Man in the Well, by Hu Bo (China, 2016) [National Premiere]
Mole, by Ildikó Enyedi (Hungary, 1987) [National Premiere]
Agatha et les Lectures Illimitées, by Marguerite Duras (France, 1981) [National Premiere]
Duras Film, by Jean Mascolo & Jerome Beaujour (France, 1981) [National Premiere]
Rogério de Carvalho, a Faithful Nomad, by Pedro Castanheira (Portugal, 2019) [Work in Progress]
A Porta 21, by João Marco (Portugal, 2015) [Special Algarve, local film]
Super 8 Performances
Piropeep, from the Collective composed by Francisca Bagulho, Cláudia Castelo, António Gomes, Manuel Henriques
War Machine, by Miguel Dinis de Oliveira
Facilities
Cadavre Exquis, by Bruno Mendes da Silva
Quotes, by Ricardo Vieira Lisbon
Offices
Writing and Imagination, by Gonçalo M. Tavares (70 euros/person – number of vacancies: 25 Registrations: [email protected])
Masterclass
Václav Kadrnka – “Adapting a poem into images” João Viana – “African Literature and Decolonial Cinema” / African Literature and Decolonial Cinema” Miguel Clara Vasconcelos – “Circo do Amor, from short stories to short films” Boris Mitic – “How to Film Nothing” Salomé Lamas 'Cinema and Literature – Dialectics: The multiplicity of forms and possibilities proposes a debate that will never end'
Psychomagic Practice: Books and Films (Psychomagic Literary Practice: Books and Films): inspired by the work of filmmaker, writer and psychomagick Alejandro Jodorowsky
International Guests
Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Director) – Kazakhstan Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja (Director) – Sweden Boris Mitic (Director) – Serbia Václav Kadrnka (Director) – Czech Republic Javier Tolentino (Criter El Séptimo Vicio) – Spain
National Guests
Alexandra Lucas Coelho (Writer and Journalist) Gonçalo M. Tavares (Writer and University Professor) Salomé Lamas (Director) Cíntia Gil (Director DocLisboa) Nuno Moura (Poet and Editor) Miguel Clara Vasconcelos (Director) Mirian Tavares (Prof. Universidade Algarve / President CIAC) Miguel Dinis de Oliveira (PhD Researcher at U. Coimbra) João Viana (Director) Bruno Mendes da Silva (Prof. Universidade Algarve) António Poppe (Artist/Musician/Poet) & Mick Trovoada (Musician) Carlos Natálio (Critic of film – To Walsh's palate) Ricardo Vieira Lisboa (Film critic – To Walsh's palate)
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