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PORTUGAL FILM –
Portuguese Film Agency
The growing international recognition of Portuguese cinema
has created an ever-increasing interest in the films produced in our
country and, with it, Portugal Film. Portuguese cinema includes
a wide range of films whose reach is conditioned by the ability
of filmmakers and producers to access the necessary means to
promote their films. The success of an internationalisation plan
relies mainly on the concrete ability of promotion agents to make
films reach entities such as distributors, festivals and local exhibition
networks that will show them to an international audience.
With over ten years of work in this field, IndieLisboa – Cultural
Association has been responsible for making many films and
filmmakers known by regularly presenting national productions
at international film festivals, where IndieLisboa’s programmers
act as privileged agents in the promotion of Portuguese cinema.
In recent years IndieLisboa – Cultural Association has worked
in a more structured way for Portuguese films having their world
premiere at the festival to have a continued life beyond that first
screening. To that end, it presents shorts and feature films in all
languages and formats (fictions, documentaries, animations
and experimental films) to programmers, distributors, sales
agents and journalists from the most renowned international
media. This is a model that arose almost spontaneously and
that had to be put in place in order to respond to the constant
demand from Portuguese filmmakers and producers, who found
in the IndieLisboa anchor a base from which to gain greater
visibility for their films.
INTRODUCTION
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Portugal Film, the most recent agency for the international
promotion and sales of Portuguese films, is thus born.
This project, now taking its first steps, sets out to publicise
and promote the production of national cinema by means of
a coherent language and strategy that takes into account the
different participants (international festivals and showcases,
international distributors and exhibitors, cinematheques, cultural
institutes and specialist press) and the specificity of each film. The
work carried out for each represented film will be contextualised
within the work of its authors in such a way that every cinematic
or audiovisual work is promoted according to its unique features
and reaches the broadest international audience possible.
Along with each film, we will also promote all the remaining work
of its filmmaker so as to ensure ongoing success. Every year we
will invite programmers from the most acclaimed international
film festivals to visit Lisbon and watch a selection of the latest
national productions. At these Portugal Film Screenings we will
present not only the films in our catalogue but also other works
deemed to be relevant and therefore interesting to promote.
Our catalogue, still small but organised in a format that invests
in steady growth, will match the size of our ability to treat each
film with the commitment and attention it deserves – this will
include providing general advice, making submissions to festivals,
sending films directly to programmers and critics, international
curators and distributors, as well as making international sales.
Portugal Film is therefore one more important step in the
growing promotion of Portuguese Cinema. So… to work!
INTRODUCTION
CATALOGUE
FEATURE
TOCA DO LOBO
THE WOLF’S LAIR
Catarina Mourão
In the mid 1950’s my grandfather was committed to a
psychiatric hospital, my uncle became a political prisoner, and
my mother at age 11 was sent to a boarding school. Since then
she hardly saw her father and brother. Today my aunt owns the
family house where some of the secrets might be kept, but my
mother hasn't gone back since my grandfather died in 1970.
In this film I want to unravel the secrets and mysteries of
my Portuguese family during dictatorship. The cloud of Salazar’s
regime is dissipating 38 years after the Revolution of 1974. Families
can now make sense of their past, reinterpret old memories and
discover new truths.
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FEATURE
SHORT
TOCA DO LOBO
THE WOLF’S LAIR
DESPEDIDA
FAREWELL
Tiago Rosa-Rosso
credits
Documentary, Fiction
2015, Portugal, 102’
HD, Color and Black & White
Portuguese
Script: Catarina Mourão
Cinematography: João Ribeiro,
Catarina Mourão
Editing: Pedro Duarte,
Catarina Mourão
Sound: Armanda Carvalho
Research and Production:
Maria Ribeiro Soares
Production: Laranja Azul
Festivals
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015
(WP)
Filmography
2010 Through Shadows
2009 Mother and Daughter (short)
2006 On Edge
2006 My Village Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (short)
2004 Love Me, Love Me Not (short)
2002 Restless
2001 Next Stop (short)
1998 The Lady of Chandor
1997 Out of Water (short)
1996 The Port (short)
1994 Mecca Before I die (short)
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Three friends are at the beach. It is the last day
of summer, the moon is rising. One of them decides to
hold his breath until the moon appears completely in the
horizon.
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SHORT
SHORT
DESPEDIDA
FAREWELL
O INDISPENSÁVEL TREINO DA VAGUEZA
THE INDISPENSABLE PRACTICE OF VAGUENESS
Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra
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Fiction
2015, Portugal, 14’
HD, Color
Portuguese
Filmography
2014 Law of Gravity (short)
2013 Deus Dará (short)
2011 Blue Fish (short)
Script: António Dente,
Miguel Plantier and Zé Bernardino
Cinematography:
Tiago Rosa-Rosso
Production:
Colectivo Pé-de-Leão
Cast: António Dente,
Miguel Plantier and Zé Bernardino
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“To come to a new through things that are not exactly new.”
Manuel Castro Caldas
“Ar.Co is a geography in each one of us, it flees from
standardization. The experience is individual. This film is my, our
experience. Based on the school’s archive, on recorded lessons
by Manuel Castro Caldas and on homey talks.”
João Miller Guerra
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SHORT
SHORT
O INDISPENSÁVEL TREINO DA VAGUEZA
THE INDISPENSABLE PRACTICE OF VAGUENESS
OUTUBRO ACABOU
OCTOBER IS OVER
Karen Akerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes
credits
Documentary, Experimental
2014, Portugal, 45’
HD, Color
Portuguese
Cinematography: Vasco Viana
Editing: Tomás Baltazar
Sound: Rúben Costa
Music: Vítor Rua
Production:
Uma Pedra no Sapato
Festivals
Doclisboa – International Film Festival 2014
(WP)
Filmography
2013 Fragments of a Participant
Observation (short)
2012 Bela Vista
2012 Cat’s Cradle (short)
2011 Generation Orchestra
2010 Li Ké Terra
(Co-directed with Nuno Baptista)
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"Beside the savage desire within him to realise the
enormities which he brooded on nothing was sacred."
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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SHORT
SHORT
OUTUBRO ACABOU
OCTOBER IS OVER
A CAÇA REVOLUÇÕES
THE REVOLUTION HUNTER
Margarida Rêgo
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Fiction, Documentary,
Experimental
2015, Brazil, Portugal, 24’
HD, Super 8mm, 16mm, minidv,
Color and Black & White
Portuguese
Festivals
Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes 2015
(WP)
Filmography
2011 Fire (short)
Script: Miguel Seabra Lopes,
Karen Akerman
Cinematography: Paulo Menezes
Editing: Karen Akerman,
Miguel Seabra Lopes
Sound: Ives Rosenfeld,
Bernardo Uzeda, Ricardo Cutz
Production: Karen Akerman,
Miguel Seabra Lopes,
Alessandra Castañeda, João Matos
Cast: Antonio Akerman Seabra,
Karen Akerman,
Miguel Seabra Lopes
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It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just
after the Portuguese Revolution. She, the Revolution Hunter,
tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time
she didn't belong to and finally understand what it means to
be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country.
A Caça Revoluções is a film that explores the relationship
between two generations, two different times and two different
fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it.
As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.
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SHORT
UPCOMING
A CAÇA REVOLUÇÕES
THE REVOLUTION HUNTER
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Documentary, Animation,
Experimental
2014, Portugal, 11’
HD, Black & White
Portuguese
Script: Margarida Rêgo
Cinematography: Margarida Rêgo
Editing: Margarida Rêgo
Sound: Mike Wyeld
Production: Margarida Rêgo
and Royal College of Arts
Festivals
IndieLisboa – Festival Internacional de Cinema
Independente 2014 (WP)
Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Cannes 2014
Forum des Images Paris 2014
Curtas Vila do Conde 2014
T-Mobile New Horizons
International Film Festival 2014
30th Rencontres Cinéma de Gindou 2014
Curtas Belo Horizonte 2014
Kaunas International Film Festival 2014
Les Rendez-vous
de l’Histoire de Blois 2014
Janela Internacional de Cinema
do Recife 2014
L’Alternativa Barcelona 2014
X Panorama Internacional
Coisa de Cinema 2014
Seville European Film Festival 2014
Festival Internacional de Curtas
do Rio de Janeiro 2014
Go Short 2015
Filmography
First film
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FEATURE
FEATURE
Freud und Friends
AQUI EM LISBOA
HERE IN LISBON
Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor,
Gabriel Abrantes, Marie Losier
Olissipo (provisory title)
Los Barcos
All about Lisbon. Four stories in the same old city. Different
characters are looking for their place in the city, they are
wondering about their wildest dreams. Sometimes it’s good to
think about what could be happening in your own city.
Script: Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor,
Gabriel Abrantes, Marie Losier
Cinematography: André Santos,
Diogo Costa Amarante, Jorge Quintela,
Rui Xavier
Sound: Marco Leão, Rafael Cardoso,
Miguel Cabral
Production: IndieLisboa –
Associação Cultural
Co-production: Denis Côté, Cinestación
(Dominga Sotomayor), Gabriel Abrantes,
Marie Losier
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Excursões
2015, Portugal, 80’
16 mm, HD, Color
Portuguese
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SHORT
SHORT
LOS BARCOS
EXCURSÕES
EXCURSIONS
Dominga Sotomayor
Denis Côté
A Chilean actress (50) travels to Lisbon
representing a film where she has a
secondary role, regarding nobody else
was available to go. In the Q&A in the
Cinematheque she doesn´t know how to
answer the audience questions. The next
day she had plans to meet the city, but
ends up with a Portuguese stranger in
an abandoned area on the other side of
the river.
Script: Dominga Sotomayor
Cinematography:
Diogo Costa Amarante
Editing: Dominga Sotomayor
Sound: Rafael Cardoso,
Sound Design: Roberto Espinoza
Production: IndieLisboa
– Associação Cultural
Co-production: Cinestación
Cast: Francisca Castillo,
João Canijo, Carloto Cotta
Selected Filmography
2014 Mar
2013 La isla (short)
(Co-directed with K
​ atarzyna
Klimkiewicz)​
2012 De Jueves a Domingo
Fiction
2015, Portugal, Chile, 20’
HD, Color
Portuguese, Spanish
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In Lisbon, Claudia offers guided tours in
and out of the city. At night, she kills time
with her sister in a modest apartment. In
Lisbon, lonesome Martinho is fluent in
Italian and guide tourists all around town.
At night, he watches documentaries on
the internet and reads about astronomy. In
Lisbon, a band is jamming. They perform
improvisational noise jazz. In Lisbon,
a mysterious phenomenon fills the air.
Claudia and Martinho’s lonely hearts will
discreetly meet to the sound of music.
Fiction
2015, Portugal, Canada, 20’
HD, Color
Italian, Portuguese
Script: Denis Côté
Cinematography: André Santos
Editing: Nicolas Roy
Sound: Marco Leão
Sound Design: Frédéric Cloutier
Music: Red Trio
Production: IndieLisboa
– Associação Cultural
Co-Production: Denis Côté
Cast: Cláudia Leal, Martinho De Jesus,
Joana de Verona, Patrícia Leal
With the participation of Red Trio (Rodrigo Pinheiro,
Hernâni Faustino, Gabriel Ferrandini)
Selected Filmography
2014 Joy of Man’s Desiring
2013 Vic and Flo saw a Bear
2012 Bestiaire
2011 Curling
2009 Carcasses
2005 Drifting States
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SHORT
SHORT
FREUD UND FRIENDS
OLISSIPO (PROVISORY TITLE)
Gabriel Abrantes
Marie Losier
Photography by Lucia Gerhardt
With the help of the most consacrated
neuroscientists, “Werner Herzog” travels
inside the brain of artists and filmmakers
from all over the world and documents
their dreams. In Lisbon (Portugal), young
director Gabriel Abrantes will be the
victim.
Script: Gabriel Abrantes, David Phelps
Cinematography: Jorge Quintela
Editing: Gabriel Abrantes
Sound: Rafael Cardoso
Music: Norberto Lobo
Production: IndieLisboa
– Associação Cultural
Co-production: Gabriel Abrantes
Cast: Carloto Cotta, Sónia Balacó,
Filipa Anika, David Phelps,
Cláudia Jardim, Joana Barrios,
Natxo Checa, Norberto Lobo
Selected Filmography
2014 Taprobana (short)
2013 Ennui, Ennui (short)
2011 Palácios de Pena (short)
(Co-directed with Daniel Schmidt)
2010 A History of Mutual Respect (short)
(Co-directed with Daniel Schmidt)
2009 Visionary Iraq (short)
(Co-directed with Benjamin Crotty)
2008 Olympia (short)
Fiction
2015, Portugal, 30’
Super 16mm, Color
Portuguese
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Mysterious portrait of Fernando, aka
Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic
performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente,
where he has been performing every night
over 30 years in golden dresses. Under the
layers of his colorful fabrics, the many skins
of Fernando are revealed, letting Lisbon’s
legends come to life. Alternately woman
mermaid, female birds, woman lion, we
are taken into the desires and dreams of
metamorphosis and myths.
Documentary, Fiction
2015, Portugal, France, 18’
16mm, Color
Portuguese
Script: Marie Losier
Cinematography: Rui Xavier
Editing: Marie Losier, Catherine Libert
Sound: Miguel Cabral
Production: IndieLisboa
– Associação Cultural
Co-production: Marie Losier
Cast: Fernando Santos/Deborah Krystal,
Cindy Scrash, Alda Cabrita,
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra
da Mata, Simon Damour, Carlos Conceição,
Bernardo Lacerda, Antoine Barraud, Didier
D´Abreu, Pedro Pereira, Eduardo Moreira
Selected Filmography
2014 Alan Vega – Just a Million Dreams (short)
2014 Bim Bam Boom Las Luchas Morenas (short)
2012 Byun, Found Object (short)
2011 The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
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CONTACTS
& OTHERS
CONTACTS
Portugal Film
Casa do Cinema
Rua da Rosa, nº277
2º, sala 1.4
1200-385
Lisbon, Portugal
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Nuno Sena
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Director:
Margarida Moz
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Festivals – Print Traffic – Events:
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