This weekend Curtas adjusts the schedules of some sessions
Due to changes in the contingency rules for the municipality of Vila do Conde announced today, July 22nd, by the competent authorities, the timetable for the sessions and activities of the festival's last weekend had to undergo some adjustments.
Some sessions will be anticipated between half and an hour compared to the time initially communicated.
The new timetables can be found below and are also available on the Curtas Vila do Conde app.
Municipal Theater Room One
Friday 23rd July
- ESMAD Showcase 3:30 pm
- New Voices - 180º Rule, Farnoosh Samadi 5:30 pm
- International Competition 8 7:30 pm
- Stereo - Chão Maior + Igor Dimitri 9:30
Saturday july 24th
- Curtinhas Award Ceremony + "The Kid" 3:30 pm
- From Shorts to Features "The Tsugua Diaries" 5:30 pm
- International Competition 9 8:00 pm
- Stereo - Angelica Salvi + "Shoes" 9:30 pm
Sunday 25th of July
- Award-winning short films 4:00 pm
- Closing Ceremony 6:00 pm
- Awarded Films 1 8:00 pm
- Award-winning films 2 9:30 pm
Municipal Theater Room Two
Friday 23rd July
- Conversation with Diogo Costa Amarante 5:00 pm
- Experimental Competition 4 7:00 pm
- Revisited Cinema - Sunset Boulevard 8:30 pm
Saturday july 24th
- Short M/3 11:00 am
- New Voices - Shorts and Conversation with Ali Asgari and Farnoosh Samadi 5:00 pm
- Cinema Revisited - Semaine de la critique 2 7:00 pm
- Cinema Revisited - Singin'in the Rain 8:30 pm
Sunday 25th of July
- Award-winning short films 11:00 am
- From Shorts to Features - Strive, Strive, Strive 4:30 pm
- Awarded Films 2 7:00 pm
- Awarded Films 1 9:00 pm
Vila do Conde Municipal Auditorium
Friday 23rd of July
- Efa Shorts Nominated Tour 03:00
Solar - Cinematic Art Gallery
Friday 23rd of July
- My Generation 1 9:15 pm
Saturday july 24th
- My Generation 2 9:15 pm
Curtas 2021: Be Your Selfie
Curtas Vila do Conde and Solar - Cinematic Art Gallery team up for a special solo exhibition by Diogo Costa Amarante "Be Your Selfie".
In parallel with the festival, Solar – Cinematic Art Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Portuguese director and artist Diogo Costa Amarante, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017.
The inauguration of Be Your Selfie is scheduled for July 17th and features a set of 13 unpublished video pieces, designed specifically for the gallery space. The exhibition will be on display until the end of August.
As a complement, the festival also presents a carte blanche to the filmmaker with several short films of his choice and a conversation with the director, preceded by the premiere in Portugal of his latest film, A Present Light.
Curtas 2021: Cinema Revisited
In this year’s Cinema Revisited Sessions, we suggest a journey from the contemporary cinema to the celebration of anniversaries of decades and even centenarians.
David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, premiered 20 years ago, and is an imaginative catharsis about Hollywood as an inducer of dreams and desires, but also as a carburettor for obsessions and nightmares. Based on this delicate and singular meta-cinematic approach conceived by Lynch, Curtas prepared a program that reflects upon the mecca of cinema in the collective imagination of successive generations, named Hollywood Daydreams and Nightmares, with films such as: Sunset Boulevard, by Billy Wilder, Singin’in the Rain, by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, The Bad and the Beautiful by Vincente Minnelli and Realité, by Quentin Dupieux. Joining the celebration of Semaine de la Critique's 60th anniversary, we will present a program entitled Sweet Sixty, which brings together films by Julia Ducournau, João Paulo Miranda Maria, Bruno de Almeida, Tsai-Ming Liang and François Ozon.
PROGRAM HOLLYWOOD: DAYDREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
MULHOLLAND DRIVE, David Lynch · France/USA · 2001 · FIC · 147’
REALITÉ, Quentin Dupieux · France/Belgium/USA · 2014 · FIC · 95’
THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Vincente Minnelli · USA · 1952 · FIC · 118‘
SUNSET BOULEVARD, Billy Wilder · USA · 1950 · FIC · 110‘
SINGIN’IN THE RAIN, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen · USA · 1952 · FIC · 110’
60th SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM
COMMAND ACTION, João Paulo Miranda Maria · Brasil · 2015 · FIC · 14’
HOME STORIES, Matthias Müller · Germany · 1990 · EXP · 6’
JUNIOR, Julia Ducournau · France · 2011 · FIC · 22’
NAJPIEKNIEJSZE FAJERWERKI EVER (THE BEST FIREWORKS EVER), Aleksandra Terpinska · Poland · 2017 · FIC · 30’
PIÈCE TOUCHÉE, Martin Arnold · Austria · 1989 · EXP · 16’
STAPLERFAHRER KLAUS – DER ERSTE ARBEITSTAG (FORKLIFT DRIVER KLAUS – THE FIRST DAY ON THE JOB), Jörg Wagner, Stefan Prehn · Germany · 2001 · FIC · 10’
THE DEBT, Bruno de Almeida · USA/Portugal · 1993 · FIC · 12’
UNE ROBE D’ÉTÉ, François Ozon · France · 1996 · FIC · 15’
WALKER, Tsai Ming-Liang · Taiwan · 2012 · FIC/EXP · 27’
Curtas 2021: Portuguese Competition
A total of 236 films are part of the 2021 edition of Curtas Vila do Conde, which will take place between July 16th and 25th, and suggests a transversal look at world cinema, in a program where films dilate the time, expanding temporalities and decline chronologies and ephemeris.
17 films are part of the festival's Portuguese Competition, creating a route through Portuguese contemporary cinema: collective traditions and individual stories, rurality and its landscapes, family and intimacy, with the social tensions implied and approaches that challenge any normative or gender constraints. Works by directors who return to Curtas will be present, such as Ana Moreira, Ico Costa, Leonor Noivo, Eduardo Brito or Paulo Patrício; and others who have already achieved a certain notoriety, such as Paolo Marinou-Blanco or Filipe Melo, in addition to the new discoveries of the section.
PORTUGUESE COMPETITION
EMPTY HANDS by Paolo Marinou-Blanco · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 15’
MIRAFLORES by Rodrigo Braz Teixeira · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 18’
DAWN by Leonor Noivo · Portugal · 2021 · FIC/DOC · 28’
ARMAZÓNIA by Francisco Moura Relvas · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 11’
CASSANDRA BITTER TONGUE by Ana Moreira · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 20’
LONE WOLF by Filipe Melo · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 22’
YOUR NAME IS by Paulo Patrício · Portugal/Belgium · 2021 · DOC/ANI · 24’
SKIN RIVER by Mário Macedo · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 19’
CARTE BLANCHE by António-Pedro · Portugal · 2021 · DOC · 24’
OSO by Bruno Lourenço · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 29’
THE HOUSE IN THE NORTH, by Inês Lima · Portugal · 2021 · DOC/EXP · 9’
LETHES, by Eduardo Brito · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 16’
MATILDE LOOKS BACK, by Ana Mariz · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 21’
NHA SUNHU, by José Magro · Portugal · 2021 · FIC · 20’
TIMKAT, by Ico Costa · Portugal · 2021 · DOC · 13’
IF WHAT I HEAR IS SILENCE, by Rosa Vale Cardoso · Portugal/Greece · 2020 · FIC · 22’
SORTES, by Mónica Martins Nunes · Portugal/Germany · 2021 · DOC · 39’
Curtas 2021: Oscar Qualifying Film Festival List
Curtas Vila do Conde is part of the OSCAR® Qualifying Film Festival List festivals.
The Academy of Motion Picture, Arts, and Sciences, responsible for the OSCAR® ceremonies, decided that Curtas Vila do Conde is part of this list and that, as of this 2021 edition, the Grand Prix of the International Competition and the Award for Best Film in the Portuguese Competition are eligible for consideration in the Academy Awards® Best Animation/Fiction (Live Action) categories, thus eliminating the need to be presented on a commercial circuit in the US, and according to the regulations.
Curtas 2021: Stereo and Music Videos
Curtas Vila do Conde is once again focusing on spaces where the seventh art and music come together, with the sections Stereo and the Music Videos Competition.
Lined up for this year's Stereo section are the performances of Spanish harpist Angélica Salvi, who will set the film Shoes by Louis Weber to music, and the collective led by Yaw Tembe, Chão Maior, who takes to the stage of Vila do Conde Municipal Theater in one of the rare presentations live from his latest work and, in collaboration, with the director Igor Dimitri.
The Stereo program is completed with another awaited edition of the
Music Videos Competition, which this year includes 14 titles.
MUSIC VIDEOS COMPETITION
ANTÓNIO ZAMBUJO - LOTE B · Pedro Serrazina · Portugal · 2021 · 3’
BRUNO PERNADAS - THEME VISION · Jep Jorba, Bruno Pernadas · Portugal · 2020 · 6’
MOULLINEX - RUNNING IN THE DARK FT. GPU PANIC · Bruno Ferreira · Portugal · 2020 · 3’
GHETTHOVEN - MAGIC · Vasco Mendes, Igor Ribeiro · Portugal · 2021 · 4’
DAVID E MIGUEL - INATEL · Francisco Lobo · Portugal · 2021 · 3’
PZ - INCOMPATIBILIDADES · Alexandre Azinheira · Portugal · 2021 · 3’
LUTA LIVRE - ESCRAVO DO PATRÃO · Cristina Viana · Portugal · 2020 · 4’
PEDRO AUGUSTO - CINCO · Rafael Gonçalves · Portugal · 2020 · 2’
STEREOBOY X YIPMAN · Luís Sobreiro · Portugal · 2021 · 9’
LUCRECIA DALT - DISUELTA · Pedro Maia · Alemanha · 2020 · 3’
CHÃO MAIOR - PASSO 2 · Igor Dimitri · Portugal · 2021 · 4’
FUGLY - STAY IN BED · Hugo Amaral · Portugal · 2020 · 3’
SEREIAS - FP25 · Francisco Laranjeira · Portugal · 2021 · 4’
VAIAPRAIA - FOGO FERA · Eloísa Micaelo · Portugal · 2020 · 2’
