The films from the National Competition of the 2020 edition of the Vila do Conde Short Films will pass on Faro between the 6th and 10th of October. The sessions always take place at 21 pm, in the auditorium of the Regional Directorate of the Portuguese Institute of Sports and Youth.
Festival organizers will bring the Faro «a selection of 17 works of animation, fiction and documentary, which is faithful in the search and discovery of the best that is being produced in Portugal».
«Sandro Aguilar, Cláudia Varejão, Carlos Conceição, Pedro Peralta, Patrick Mendes, João Rosas, Filipa César, Alexandra Ramires, Natália Azevedo Andrade, Denise Fernandes, Diogo Salgado, Luís Costa, Igor Dimitri, Nuno Baltazar, Catarina Romano, Inês Nunes and Eduardo Brito are the selected directors», add those responsible for Curtas de Vila do Conde.
In the year that marks the 20th anniversary of Agência da Curta Metragem, «the festival will also include the launch of a book that takes a look at the last two decades of Portuguese cinema: Reframing Portuguese Cinema in the 21st Century has the contributions of a ten programmers and film critics, analyzing trends, transformations and the work of several Portuguese filmmakers».
Short Film Program in Faro:
October 6, 21 pm, National Competition 30
cloudy night, Diogo Salgado · Portugal · 2020 · FIC · 14'
Two boys run in the woods in a sort of “catch” game, when one of them hides. To get revenge, the other decides to leave and hide the bike from the first, the means that would allow him to return home.
Flaked, Natália Azevedo Andrade · Hungary · 2020 · ANI · 10'
A mysterious house by the sea, where the presence of water and maritime elements has a strong symbolic charge, and like the tides as imminent signs of the feelings that overflow, it hides countless secrets.
Wind vane, João Rosas · Portugal · 2020 · FIC · 41'
Nicolau is a boy who has finished high school but is adrift in an ocean of choices. In addition to being a music lover and curious, he is a romantic who falls in love with every girl he meets, and the possibilities he imagines for their future.
October 7, 21 pm, National Competition 30
The Craft of Illusion, Cláudia Varejão · Portugal · 2020 · DOC · 6'
Based on images from an archive of a family and sound excerpts from other films, Madame Bovary, Flaubert's heroine, is the motto for a reflection on gender identity and social values, in an exercise in dismantling the traditional role of women in the dominant patriarchal society.
Elo, Alexandra Ramires · Portugal/France · 2020 · ANI · 12'
A melancholy and poetic journey about fear and discovery: one night, the encounter between a man with a small head in a large body and a woman with a large head in a small body helps them to overcome their fears and accept their “ defects” as unique sensibilities.
A String of Scarlet Baba, Carlos Conceição · Portugal · 2020 · FIC · 59'
The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is shaken when an unusual incident suddenly transforms him into a social media star.
October 8, 21 pm, National Competition 30
Perpetual Night, Pedro Peralta · Portugal/France · 2020 · FIC · 17'
Castuera, Spain, April 1939. During the night, two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with his family. They request your presence at the police station. Paz immediately understands the fatality of this nocturnal visit.
Ursula, Eduardo Brito · Portugal · 2020 · FIC · 6'
Over the bleak and barren landscapes of a city somewhere in the Arctic Circle, we hear the story of a man who dreamed of being a woman, a dreamlike reverie that allows him to be in two opposite places at the same time.
a summer's dream, Inês Nunes · Portugal · 2020 · FIC · 11'
Certain moments last longer in our memory than others: a positive memory, of a peaceful afternoon on the beach, or a negative memory, like the helplessness of indefiniteness.
Armor, Sandro Aguilar · Portugal/Canada · 2020 · DOC · 30'
Hector came filthy drunk. The father was sick and about to die, the girlfriend left him for an older guy and took her eleven-year-old son. That day he wore armor. There was a medieval party and the city was on fire.
October 9, 21 pm, National Competition 30
Anyway, Catarina Romano · Portugal · 2020 · ANI · 12'
A woman has been locked up in her house for a long time. She is unemployed, closed off from the possibilities of her historical time. Closed inside, the days weigh heavily on her tired body, the place of all fights. Saving memory: she dances.
Jump, Nuno Baltazar · Portugal · 2020 · FIC · 13'
At a store, Alexandre leafs through an adult magazine, but that's just a way to distract the employee while his friends steal candy. It is a small offense, but it shows that Alexandre walks at his own risk. When he gets home, his mother doesn't open the door for him and his helplessness seems to confirm itself.
our kingdom, Luís Costa · Portugal · 2020 · FIC · 15'
In a wonderful realm, where the Devil supposedly doesn't exist, a child wanders through a granite village. When he gets home he only finds the death and silence of adults. He feels alone, but only cries when he wanders alone. From the homonymous work by Valter Hugo Mãe.
The Land of No Return, Patrick Mendes · Portugal · 2020 · FIC · 20'
Somewhere in an indefinite time, between fantastic imagery and timeless ethnography, we witness an initiation ritual in a community at the ends of the earth, where the collective seems to prevail over the individual.
October 10, 21 pm, National Competition 30
Nha Mila, Denise Fernandes · Portugal/Switzerland · 2020 · FIC · 18'
Appropriation film that puts into dialogue images of Hollywood diva Ava Gardner in two films that mark the beginning and end of the “Spanish” period, in an essayistic register that proposes a reflection on cinema and its illusory processes.
Salsa, Igor Dimitri · Portugal/Argentina · 2020 · FIC · 13'
On a common afternoon in Buenos Aires, some characters socialize around the meeting space that is the Dominican hairdressing salon. Ballerinas and performers, actors, clients and reggaeton and salsa singers.
Quantum Creole: The Cotton Algorithm, Filipa César · Germany/France/Portugal/Spain · 2019 ·DOC · 40'
art of a broader project that proposes a triangular crossing between the concepts of textile weave (cotton), linguistic weave (creole) and computational weave, the film explores excerpts from the works and performative readings of several authors, in a reflection on forms of exploration.
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