ARTS 4 People and Earth
As part of the “ARTS 4 People and Earth” project, five films were made that delve into the relationship between human beings and society with the environment and nature and with the climate emergency from different perspectives. Each film encapsulates a unique story and narrative, but they all share a common thread: the Serra da […]
The Bio Estrela Project
Forest fires are threatening to destroy one of Portugal’s last natural regions, the Serra da Estrela. If the fires continue, Portugal will lose more than the trees it burns. It will lose the generations of history and tradition kept alive in the farming communities and villages that survive and live off the forests. Young people […]
One with the whale
Hunting whales is a matter of life and death for the inhabitants of St. Lawrence, a small island in the Bering Sea. So when Chris Agra Apassingok becomes the youngest person to harpoon a whale in his Alaskan village, his mother proudly shares the news on Facebook. To her surprise, thousands of keyboard activists brutally […]
Book “A Portuguese Look: Cinema and Nature in the 21st Century”
“How does contemporary Portuguese cinema represent nature? What motifs from the natural world animate Portuguese films released since 2000? What narrative, conceptual and aesthetic forces does our recent cinema find in this independent, continuous and simultaneous manifestation of life, that is, of its physical phenomena and beings?” These were the questions that motivated Filipa Rosário […]
GERLACH
Loving the island
This was my destiny and I have to keep going until the end.” For more than 30 years, fisherman João Alfredo da Silva, 63, has dedicated his life to collecting waste from the Billings reservoir, one of the most important water reservoirs in São Paulo. Focusing on his work and personal life, the film explores […]
Big Bang Henda
Tearing down statues and symbols, building new memories, framing the destroyed landscape, writing letters to the future, reversing power dynamics: Big Bang Henda is a documentary-poetry-manifesto about the work of Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda. He takes us on a journey through his creations and reflections, which are at the forefront of anti-colonial thinking, urging […]
Camorim
Camorim is an urban quilombo located near Barra da Tijuca, an upper-middle class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is made through the eyes of four quilombolas who reveal their desires, memories and important discoveries about the place where they live and resist.
Peas
A portrait of the people who work the land in Ervilha, a private plot left abandoned in one of the richest areas of Porto: Foz do Douro. Ervilha faces the same threat as our world: being destroyed in the name of progress. A new avenue is being planned that will destroy an area that feeds […]
Coast
One winter’s night, the sea once again threatens the apartment tower where two neighbors live. The next day, their children come to pressure them to leave everything behind.