Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid is the director in focus at the 26th edition of Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival.
The director returns to Vila do Conde where he has already won admirers. In 2016, the short film "From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer" was honored with the International Competition Grand Prix, having passed that same year through the Cannes Film Critics Week. This somber and satirical portrait of a wedding photographer, who develops a fetishistic obsession with brides, is just one of the multiple films that builds up the retrospective to be presented at Curtas Vila do Conde.
Internationally recognized, the work of Nadav Lapid, both in the literature and later in the cinema, has developed especially around the Israeli national identity, that is to ask what it is to be Israelite these days. This aspect is particularly evident in some films, especially in his first feature film. "The Policeman" (2011) tells the story of an elite policeman who cultivates the uniformed beauty and the spirit of camaraderie but whose life changes the twists and turns. The eminence of paternity and a fortuitous encounter with a radical group lead this character to question about the war: politics but also interior. A dialectical approach between two worlds that earned the director numerous accolades in the internacional critic and a prize at the Locarno Festival.
In "The Kindergarten Teacher" (2014), a feature that has also received several awards, Lapid once again raised existential and moral issues through intimate portraits. In this case, it is a meeting between a childhood educator and a prodigal child with a special talent for poetry. In an ambiguous atmosphere, the moral of the film oscillates between the belief of salvation by art and the manipulation of a child.
The Israeli landscape is also a constant feature in Nadav Lapid's films, from the short film "Emile's Girlfriend" in 2006, which tell a cultural encounter between Delphine, a French girl , and Yo'av, the Israelite. In addition to these, other short films will also be screened by the director, in an integral retrospective.
Nadav Lapid will come to Vila do Conde to present her work, but also for a debate, taking place on July 21, at 3 pm, at Vila do Conde Municipal Theater, also integrated in the 3rd edition of the Film Criticism Workshop promoted by the festival.
The 26th Curtas Vila do Conde, which runs between July 14 and 22, has the support of the MEDIA / Creative Europe program, Vila do Conde City Hall, the Ministry of Culture, the Cinema and Audiovisual Institute and several indispensable partners to the festival.
New feature film by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, "Diamantino", opens the 26th edition of Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, on July 14. Integrated in the section From Short to Long, this exhibition marks the national debut of the film that won the Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival.
Praised by international critics, "Diamantino" tells the story of a world football star who fails at the end of his career confronting the evil eye of public opinion. In a delusional portrait that crosses the genres of comedy, drama and science fiction, Diamantino ends up getting involved in political issues, from the fight against neofascism to the refugee crisis, culminating in an existential crisis about the origin of the genius.
The Portuguese director, who is already a regular presence at the festival, received the prize for best performance for the short film "Os Humores Artificiais" last year, also integrating the collective exhibition Terra, in the Solar Gallery of Cinematic Art, with " Hunchback ", a film choreographed with Ben Rivers. Curtas Vila do Conde has been following the work of Gabriel Abrantes since 2009, showing several of his short films: "Too Many Daddies, Mommies and Babies" (2009), "Baby Back Costa Rica" (2011), "Fratelli" 2011), "Zwazo" (2012), "Taprobana" (2014) and "A Brief History of Princess X" (2016).
The section From Short to Long also features the latest Yann Gonzalez film, "Un couteau dans le coeur" (2018), also premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Against the background of the pornographic industry of the late 70's in Paris, the feature film tells the story of Anne (Vanessa Paradis), producer of porn movies of series B. In an unmistakable style that has been maturing since the beginning of career, the French director combines the drama of a failed love affair and serial murder, halfway between the erotic and the police.
The festival also features a carte blanche by Yann Gonzalez, a very crazy midnight session, composed of avant-garde films and some rarities, presented by himself. "Depressive Cop" (2016), by Bertrand Mandico; "Tout ce dont je me souviens" (1969), by Christian Boltanski; "The Cat Lady" (1969) by Tom Chomont; "Dellamorte Dellamorte Dellamore" (2000), by David Matarasso; "Jungle Island" (1967) by Jack Smith; are some of the filmmaker's choices.
The 26th Curtas Vila do Conde, which runs between July 14 and 22, has the support of the MEDIA / Creative Europe program, Vila do Conde City Hall, the Ministry of Culture, the Cinema and Audiovisual Institute and several indispensable partners to the festival.
The national music will be highlighted in the 26th edition of Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, taking place between 14 and 22 July. Moor Mother and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (HHY) join the directors André Tentugal and Vasco Mendes in an exclusive project. Linda Martini, B Facade, Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes and Black Bombaim with João Pais Filipe complete the program.
Ex-libris of the festival, the Stereo program, combines the best of two worlds: music and cinema, through concerts, concerts with live video and a competition of music videos.
On July 19, the American artist, songwriter and activist Moor Mother takes the stage with Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (HHY & The Macumbas) to present an unprecedented spectacle, resulting from an artistic residence in Vila do Conde. The directors André Tentugal and Vasco Mendes will create the visual component of the concert, combining the work of the participants in the MAD Summer School film workshop, which will also take place in July.
Stereo starts on the first day of the festival on July 14. Black Bombaim, a Portuguese psychadelic rock trio, will open the section with a collaboration with the artist and performer João Pais Filipe for "Dragonflies with Birds and Snake" by the German director Wolfgang Lehmann, whose works were often present at the experimental competition of Curtas. Released in 2011, the film uses zoological and educational images to create a sensory and macro-photographic approach to insects' world. The experimental aspect of the feature film will go alongside with live music improvisation, on a composite and rehearsed basis, which is already a characteristic of the band.
Between classical and electronic, erudite and pop music, Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes come to Vila do Conde on July 18 to present their new album "At The Still Point of The Turning World." The titles of the album and of the six compositions are taken from a poem by T.S. Elliot, about the passage of time, which served as a source of inspiration. The concert at Curtas Vila do Conde will also count on the participation of 14 musicians from an ensemble from Aveiro and with visuals by Miguel C. Tavares, responsible for the first videoclip of the band and the unprecedented performance of live video.
Appealing the musical experimentation, the films of Buster Keaton come back once again as a source of creation in the festival. This time B Fachada will be the responsible for the creation of an original musical and interpretation for the work of the American actor and actor, in this case, "The Cameraman", co-realized by Edward Sedgwick. The show will be presented on July 20 and will combine the harmonies of the Portuguese singer - songwriter, also composer musician with great at ease in electronic, and the adventures - comic and satirical, as usual - of an inexperienced photographer, interpreted by Keaton himself.
Linda Martini, one of the most popular bands in the recent national panorama, will close the program Stereo on July 21. The band, which intersects various influences from rock to pop and responsible for hits like "Amor Combate", will have the challenge of composing for "La Coquille et le Clergyman", a surrealist French avant-garde film of the twenties, directed by Germaine Dulac. With a script written by the unmistakable Antonin Artaud, the film portraits the erotic hallucinations of a priest and the respective sexual desire by the wife of a general.
Tickets for these shows cost between 7 and 10 € and are on sale at Vila do Conde Municipal Theater and Bilheteira Online. Free-Pass festival holders have free access to all concerts. This general pass, for sale from 40 euros exclusively on the site of Curtas Vila do Conde, also guarantees access to all the film sessions and other events of the festival.
The Music Videos Competition will once again present a selection of the best Portuguese music videos, innovators in the art of combining music and cinema. Always seeking to follow the evolution of genres and the way of making films, this competition, dedicated in recent years exclusively to national production, has exhibited works by some of the most outstanding artists in the area, among them Paulo Furtado, Rodrigo Areias, João Nicolau, André Tentugal and Vasco Mendes among others.
The 26th Curtas Vila do Conde, which will be held from July 14 to 22, has the support of the MEDIA/ Creative Europe program, Vila do Conde City Hall, the Ministry of Culture, the Cinema and Audiovisual Institute and several indispensable partners to the festival.
Municipal Theater of Vila do Conde:
BLACK BOMBAIM + JOÃO PAIS FILIPE
14 JUL, 23:00
Tickets: 7 euros
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JOANA GAMA + LUÍS FERNANDES
18 JUL, 23:00
Tickets: 7 euros
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MOOR MOTHER + JONATHAN ULIEL SALDANHA
19 JUL, 23:00
Tickets: 7 euros
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B FACHADA
20 JUL, 23:00
Tickets: 10 euros
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LINDA MARTINI
21 JUL, 23:00
Tickets: 10 euros
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* Free-Pass Curtas Vila do Conde allows free access to all the concerts, to lift in the same day and in the limit of the available places
From 14 July to 22, Curtas Vila do Conde will once again occupy northern coastal city with the best of world cinema. In this edition, Curtas promotes educative formation on the moving images through three workshops: Cinema, in partnership with MAD Summer School, Expanded Cinema and Film Criticism.
Promoted by ESMAD - Escola Superior de Media, Artes e Design in partnership with the festival, the Cinema workshop will take place between July 16 and 20, within MAD Summer School. The final show will intersect music and video and will be premiered during the 2018 edition of Curtas Vila do Conde. American activist Moor Mother and Portuguese musician Jonathan Saldanha (HHY) are joining each other to an artistic residence in July with the young community of Vila do Conde. From the sound work developed by the duo, the participants of this workshop will have the opportunity to collaborate with the directors Vasco Mendes and André Tentugal on the creation of the visual component. Inscriptions are open until June 18 and can be submitted here.
With tutoring by Spanish artists Adriana Vila and Luis Macías (Crater Lab), the Expanded Cinema workshop aims to offer a basis for the different expressions of intervention techniques in live film through 16mm projections and luminous artifacts. The focus will be the manipulation of image and sound content in the celluloid and in the projection apparatus, and the use of instruments of improvisation and cinematographic action. Cut, paste, recompose. The result should be a collective performative film. This workshop will be held July 18 to 20, and inscriptions - limited to 10 participants - can be submitted through this form.
Since 2016, the Film Criticism Workshop has been an important platform for the promotion of critical thinking around the cinema, resulting in texts that are disseminated either in the channels of the festival itself or through various media partners (Público, À Pala de Walsh , A Cuarta Parede, etc). Besides the practical side, the workshop also offers several masterclasses with cinemas and renowned theorists. Mark Rapapport, Thomas Elsaesser, Nicole Brenez, Miguel Gomes, Jorge Mourinha or João Tabarra were some of the personalities that passed by the workhsop in previous editions. The third edition of the workshop will take place between 14 and 21 July and will be attended by Navad Lapid, Peter Zorn (filmmaker and curator of the European Media Art Network), Jorge Mourinha (critic and journalist of Público) and Carlos Natálio (critic in À Pala de Walsh), among others. Entries can be submitted until June 15 through this form.
Animar 13 comes to the end with a party for the whole family. Besides two short films by students from Vila do Conde, the animated film "The Manly Fox and Other Stories" by Patrick Imbert and Benjamin Renner will also be screened. Everything from 4pm, at the Municipal Theater of Vila do Conde.
The 13th edition of ANIMAR comes to the end on 20 May. In the last three months, the team at Solar - Galeria de Arte Cinemática has intensively promoted several activities dedicated to the training of the youngest for the cinema: cinema sessions, cinema studios, illustration and print workshops, guided visits to the exhibition patent, among others. From basic to secondary education, more than two hundred students from the North region were able to participate in this project, both in school context and beyond.
In this edition, Patrícia Rodrigues, Joana Nogueira and Pedro Neves were the invited directors for the orientation of the film studios developed over several weeks in schools in the municipality of Vila Conde. The two short films produced together with the students will be screened for the first time during the Animar 13 Closing Party at the Vila do Conde Municipal Theater. At the ceremony, which will start at 4:00 pm, prizes will also be awarded for the first edition of the Illustration Contest, aimed at students of the visual arts, which aims to promote the links between drawing and cinema.
Patrick Imbert and Benjamin Renner's feature film "The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales" will mark the end of the party. From the books of Renner himself, the filmmakers created an animated comedy divided into three little stories and three main characters: the fox, of course, a rabbit and a duck. Tickets cost 2 euros for children under 16 and 3,5 euros for the others.
Until then, it will be possible to visit the Animar 13 exhibitions at the Solar - Cinematic Art Gallery, which includes works by Joana Nogueira and Patrícia Rodrigues, Alexandra Ramires (Xá) and Laura Gonçalves, Pedro Neves, Paulo Patrício and Marte Monteiro, and Anatomie du Labo 10, which brings together international illustrations of competing films in the Labo section of the last edition of the Clermont-Ferrand festival at the Vila do Conde Municipal Theater.
PROGRAM
Closing Party ANIMAR 13
May 20, 4:00 pm
at Vila do Conde Municipal Theater, room 1
Formal sitting
Short-films ANIMAR 13
Making of ANIMAR 13
Award Ceremony Illustration Competition ANIMAR 13
Film screening "The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales"
In April, Animar 13 presents a commemorative session of Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, a parallel illustration show and an illustration workshop for beginners with Joana Estrela.
On April 15, Curtas Vila do Conde presents a commemorative session of the 40th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and the 10th Anatomie du Labo. This session, taking place at Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde, brings together four short films selected from the Labo section of the French festival: "Everything (Tout)", by David O'Reilly, "Reruns (Rediffusions)", by Rosto, "Proch (Poussière)", by Jakub Radej, "Black America Again", by Bradford Young, "Shadow Nettes", by Phillip Barker and "Retour", by Pang-Chuan Huang.
On the same day, opens the illustration show Anatomie du Labo 10, which will be exhibited in the foyer of the theater until the end of Animar 13, on May 19.
Vila do Conde, through the Curtas Metragens CRL association, was one of the cities chosen to host this itinerant show, which will leave the French city for a journey in Europe. The Anatomie du Labo invites international artists - proposed by various festivals - to illustrate the films in competition in the Labo section of the Clermont-Ferrand Festival program. The main objective is to promote dialogue between filmmakers and viewers. Júlio Dolbeth joined the exhibition representing Curtas Vila do Conde. The Portuguese illustrator has been working in partnership with the festival and the results are visible even on the walls of the city.
On April 21, the illustrators Joana Estrela and Sofia Rocha e Silva come to the Solar Galeria de Arte Cinemática to guide a workshop of illustration based on the songs of intervention of the Carnation Revolution, aimed at children between 8 and 12 years. Inscriptions can be sent to animar@curtas.pt and have a cost of 10 euros. On the same day, the film "L'Aventure Commence" by Thierry Frémaux will also be shown, also in the municipal theater, in partnership with the Cineclube de Vila do Conde.
