Cinema and Literature will go hand in hand from today until the 13th, in various spaces in the city of Olhão. Over the course of more than a week, the many links between these two arts and served movies, books, tours, a filmic menu and even a psychomagic filmic-literary office.
O Olhão International Film and Literature Festival (FICLO) starts today, at 19 pm, with the screening of the film “The Gentle Indifference of the World”, by Adilkhan Yerzhanov. This work will inspire the filmic menu that chef Adérito Silva will create and which will be served after the session.
From here, the kick-off is given to a festival that will have many national 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.
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 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.
In parallel, 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 de 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." explained Débora Pinho Mateus, co-director of the festival, in the FICLO presentation.
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 Andersson 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, on the day the festival was presented.
On the other hand, the organization challenged well-known writers to write texts "that would enter into a dialogue with a silent film of their choice".
Gonçalo M. Tavares chose to write a text inspired by the 1931 film “Tabu”, by FW Murnau. Alexandra 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.
Do vast program, which can be consulted in full on the FICLO website, are also part 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.
Another highlight of FICLO are the film tours, which will take the audience to «walk through the region through films shot in Olhão and from Cabanas de Tavira to Castro Marim».
«This is a walk through the vestiges of films such as Princípio da Sabedoria, by António Macedo, À Flor do Mar, poetry by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen or A luz da Ria Formosa, by João Botelho», according to the FICLO organization .
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