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New Delhi

New Delhi

India

Organised by the Embassy of Portugal Cultural Centre in India, the Lusophone Film Fest brings a taste of portuguese-speaking cinema to New Delhi.

19 SELECTED FILMS FOR NEW DELHI

(shown here in alphabetical order)

A Gravidez é Nossa

15

Documentary

min

A Gravidez é Nossa

Four men in a rural Mozambican community who live in very different stages of life, from having their first girlfriend, expecting their first child, or being married for many years. However, they all have one thing in common: they want to change the traditional way in which contraception, pregnancy, childcare and housework are viewed by other men in their community.

Mozambique

David Aguacheiro & Tina Krüger

2019

Ana. Untitled

110

Documentary/Drama

min

Ana. Untitled

Stela, a young Brazilian actress, decides to make a work on the letters exchanged between Latin American plastic artists in the 70s and 80s. She travels to Cuba, Mexico, Argentina and Chile looking for her works and testimonies about the reality they lived during the dictatorships that most of these countries faced at the time. In the midst of the investigation, Stela discovers the existence of Ana, a young Brazilian artist who was part of this world, but disappeared. Ana went from southern Brazil, from a small town in the interior to Buenos Aires. Obsessed by the character, Stela decides to find her and find out what happened to her. A road movie about Latin American reality. The film won the 2020 Havana Film Festival and at the 6th BRICS festival in Goa for the best director.

Brazil

Lúcia Murat

2020

Cabelo de Identidade

14

Documentary

min

Cabelo de Identidade

A documentary on afro hair that is also a documentary on black identity.

Portugal

Sofia Riço Calado

2019

Ice Merchants

14

Animation

min

Ice Merchants

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

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Portugal

João Gonzalez

2022

Lusofonia a (r)Evolução

65

Documentary

min

Lusofonia a (r)Evolução

A Red Bull Music Academy production filmed with the fast-beat of a music video. From Portuguese fado, Angolan kuduro, Cape Verdean morna, Brazilian baile funk, hiphop or rock, this film sheds light on a new movement being born out of the cultural mix of the Portuguese-speaking countries.

Portugal

Red Bull Music Academy

2006

North Atlantic

15

Short film

min

North Atlantic

An isolated air-traffic controller in an island of the Azores archipelago receives a transatlantic emergency signal from a lone pilot cut helplessly adrift over the North Atlantic. As their engagement unfolds, it emerges that their new found friendship may not last through the night.

Portugal

Bernardo Nascimento

2010

Rosinha and Other Wild Animals

108

Documentary

min

Rosinha and Other Wild Animals

Explores the Portuguese Colonial Exhibition held in Porto in 1934. A pair of researchers piece together a picture of an event officially presented as a showcase of the southern European country's foreign achievements.

Portugal

Marta Pessoa

2023

A Place In Nowhere

6

Short film

min

A Place In Nowhere

Until one day… when the first shot was fired, everyone had to leave their homes.” In 1975 Ema was expecting the arrival of her first child in Angola. However, her tranquility was abruptly interrupted by a force that took away her comfort and changed her life forever.

Angola

Bárbara de Oliveira e João Rodrigues

2016

António Lindo António

42

Documentary

min

António Lindo António

A documentary about the director’s uncle who left his rural village in Portugal for Brazil 50 years ago at the age of 19 never to return. Over the years, he has promised his mother that he would come back… but half a century later, she is still waiting. Why did he never return?

Portugal

Ana Maria Gomes

2015

Gonzaga, de Pai pra Filho

130

Feature Film

min

Gonzaga, de Pai pra Filho

From the backlands of Brazil to the heart of Rio, this is the real story of two great but very different artists: the 'King of Baiao' Luiz Gonzaga and his son Gonzaguinha.

Brazil

Breno Silveira

2012

Ilha dos Espíritos

63

Documentary

min

Ilha dos Espíritos

A small island, a great history. Long before giving its name to the country, the Mozambique island had a fundamental role in the Indian Ocean during centuries. Anchor point for caravels, meeting point for pirates, it is a melting pot of races. It raises its walls in the middle of the sea. Its winding streets full of life reveal small palaces, churches and white houses. Its inhabitants are eccentric characters, proud of the island's past history. As we wander through the streets we meet an historian, a maritime archeologist, a fisherman, the "doorman" of the island, a dancer, many spirits...

Mozambique

Licínio Azevedo

2010

Mangrove school

35

Documentary

min

Mangrove school

We went to research the conditions of the students in the guerrilla schools in the mangroves. Instead, we soon became ourselves the learners and the first lesson was how to walk. In the mangrove school the learning happens with the whole body.

Guinea-Bissau

Filipa César & Sónia Vaz Borges

2022

O Lobo Solitário

23

Short film

min

O Lobo Solitário

One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.

Portugal

Filipe Melo

2021

Abalar

3

Short film

min

Abalar

A woman waiting on a train station for a fleeting moment with her love. Best Film Award at the Lisbon Super 8 Film Festival and «One Take» Film Festival Zagreb.

Portugal

Miguel Clara Vasconcelos & Fernando Carrilho & Joaquim Mendes

2004

Berlenga Grande

21

Documentary

min

Berlenga Grande

A small island off the coast of Portugal: a seaside resort during the summer, a protected reserve for the rest of the year. Only the lighthouse keepers live there in winter. Along with thousands of seabirds. An immersion into solitude and the natural elements, filmed in a pictorial manner and with a sense of framing that blends man into his environment.

Portugal

Vitor Carvalho

2014

Hereros Angola

86

Documentary

min

Hereros Angola

Living in the remote lands of southwest Angola, the Hereros are a bantu people with an ancient tradition passed on from one generation to another. To an external eye a merely exotic tribe, this documentary shows the living knowledge of the Hereros in constant movement, from birth to demise showing daily life along the way. A unique film about a people with virtually no recorded history.

Angola

Sérgio Guerra

2013

Kalunga

22

Short film

min

Kalunga

From a place far from home, Lara is driven by enigmatic dreams to fulfill a spiritual birth ritual that will take her along with her dead aunt back to Africa.

Mozambique

Lara Sousa

2018

Mar de Sines

72

Documentary

min

Mar de Sines

Three generations of fishermen that know the Portuguese southwest sea like few, its charm as well as its tough reality.

Portugal

Diogo Vilhena

2016

Pacarrete

97

Feature Film

min

Pacarrete

Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see.

Brazil

Allan Deberton

2019

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