Philosophy through film: an education in motion, inside and outside the classroom
What innovative pedagogical contributions might arise from the vital and essentialcomplicity between Philosophy and Film? This is a formative moment for sharing educational practice grounded in Film, both insideand outside Amarante Secondary School, revealing it — through a plurality of initiatives(Philosophy through Film, the National Film Plan) — as an inclusive Art par excellence. The […]
Illustrating Stories with the Thaumatrope
Hosted by: Sérgio Pereira e Laura MarquesTarget audience: 3rd grade students While playing and having fun, we create the future. What if we learnt sustainable habits while experimenting with a toy from the first infancy of moving images? In this workshop, children will draw and assemble thaumatropes, an optical toy that creates the illusion of […]
QUIETUDE (Quietness)
The hotel breathes. It rustles. It waits. Yessica is the only one who hears it, the only one who sees what’s writhing beneath the surface. Today, she takes action.
PANTANAL
In 2020, Brazilian biologist Luciana Leite fulfilled her lifelong dream of visiting the Pantanal – world’s largest tropical wetland and a sanctuary to an astonishing array of wildlife – only to confront its worst-ever fire. Deeply affected by the experience, she and her friend Heideger set out to uncover the fire’s cause, but what they […]
UNE GOUTTE DE PLUS (One More Drop)
Gwena and Guentin, a couple of neo-rurals, are waiting for a happy event, But recently, Gwena has been plagued by obvious anxieties. Doubt prevails.
THE UNLIMITED WORLD
Tranquil, unspoiled landscapes. The sound of the sea mingling with the whistling sound of the wind influenced by the great waves of the Atlantic. Red mountains, a stork circling above a fallen tree. A feeling of dreaminess, a palpable infinity that manages without many people. Aesthetic compositions in motion.
THE HERRING QUEEN
For as long as people in Eyemouth, a tiny Scottish fishing town, can remember, boys became men who catch fish and a young girl is crowned as a queen. Now, there’s no fish left for the men to catch, but year after year, a new 14 year old Herring Queen still takes her crown. Through […]
SOUVENIRS DU MONT SALOMÉ (Lost Frequencies)
Salomé, an acoustician, is called to a small village in the Vosges Mountains. Equipped with her recorder and microphones, she investigates mysterious sounds that have been troubling the residents for months. But Salomé is about to discover an invisible world, one that bears the traces of both the present and the past…
REMIGIA′S LESSONS
“The land that you simply step on is the same land that you will seek your whole life in order to survive.” These are the words of wisdom Nanay Remigia’s father told her throughout her childhood. The Dumagat tribe, descendents of those who fled the Spanish colonization of the Philippines into the lowlands, has lived […]
PETRA Y EL SOL (Petra and the Sun)
During the thaw, 71-year-old Petra discovers the intact body of a mountaineer who disappeared in 1900 and relives an impossible love story. A visual elegy about memory and suspended time that, through meticulous art direction, oscillates between nostalgia and the fantastical.