Fantasporto 2018

The 38th runs February 19 to March 4 at Teatro Rivoli, Porto. This year’s theme is The theme of this 38th edition, reflecting the worries of today’s world is Ethics- The boundaries of Science, Arts and the Cinema, with lectures and debates on the matter.

It presents fantasy films, directors week, Orient Express (Asian Films) Portuguese Cinema.

Highlights include: Toho’s hero saga Ajin: Demi Human; Toni Venturi, A Comédia Divina; Joel Lamangan, Bhoy Intsik; Robin Aubert, Les Affamés; Glass Garden, Shin Su-won; Budapest Noir, Éva Gárdos; The Charmer, Milad Alami; November, Rainer Sarnet; Al Asleyeen- The Originals, Marwan Hamed; Chimera, Pappi Corsicato, Bikini Moon, Milcho Manchevski and Anna Karenina: Vronsky’s Story, Karen Shakhnazarov.

Portuguese film will premiere Luís Diogo’s Uma Vida Sublime, Fernando Vendrell’s Aparição and Bernardo Lopes and Helder Faria’s Doutores Palhaços.

For more info: http://www.fantasporto.com/home

KINO 2018 – German Language Film

Josef Hader
Wilde Maus (Wild Mouse) © Petro Domenigg

The 15th KINO – German Language Film runs January 18-24 @ Cinema São Jorge, Goethe-Institut, Lisboa; 25-28 @Teatro Municipal Rivoli, Cinema Passos Manuel, Porto; February 14-16 @ Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra. KINO has a main section and a documentary section – KINOdoc, as well as a family session and sessions for schools.

Lisboa’s opening session will be Josef Hader’s Wilde Maus (Wild Mouse), in Porto and Coimbra Andres Veiel’s Beuys, a documentary about German artist Joseph Beuys.

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Egon Schiele – Tod und Mädchen (Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden)

Main Section: Haus ohne Dach (Roofless House), Soleen Yusef; Alki Alki (Drunkard), Axel Ranisch; Egon Schiele – Tod und Mädchen (Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden), Dieter Berner; Casting, Nicolas Wackerbarth; Siebzehn (Seventeen), Monja Art; Herbert, Thomas Stuber; Ich und Kaminski (Kaminski and I), Wolfgang Becker; Die göttliche Ordnung (The Devine Order), Petra Biondina Volpe.

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Beuys © zeroonefilm

KINOdoc: Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht (If I Think of Germany at Night), Romuald Karmakar; Bruder Jakob (Brother Jakob), Elí Roland Sachs; Parchim International, Stefan Eberlein; Zwischen den Stühlen (To Be a Teacher), Jakob Schmidt;
Mein wunderbares West-Berlin (My Wonderful West Berlin), Jochen Hick; Overgames, Lutz Dammbeck; Beuys, Andres Veiel; B-Movie – Lust & Sound in West-Berlin, Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange.

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B-Movie Lust & Sound in West-Berlin © DEF Media GmbH

For more info: https://www.goethe.de/ins/pt/pt/kul/sup/kin.html

Man with the Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov

CLOSE-UP – Observatório de Cinema de Famalicão: A Viagem runs 14-20 at Casa das Artes, Famalicão.

It includes 40 films, film-concerts, concerts and an exhibition.

Film concerts are:

Saturday 14: Man with the Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, with music by SENSIBLE SOCCERS, 9:30pm.

Saturday 21: 3 Short-Films, Reinaldo Ferreira, with music by DEAD COMBO, 9:30pm.

Among others, films include: Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme; Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, Werner Herzog; Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch; Las Acacias, Pablo Giorgelli; Talvez Deserto Talvez Universo, Karen Akerman & Miguel Seabra Lopes American Honey, Andrea Arnold; The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi; The Spirit of the Beehive, Víctor Erice and Traces of a Diary by André Principe & Marco Martins.

Tickets: €6 (film concerts)/€3 (films). For more info: http://www.closeup.pt

Underscore Festival – Music, Sound, Moving Image, and Archive

Mocny Czlowiek

Underscore Festival – Music, Sound, Moving Image, and Archive runs 13-17 in Lisboa.

13 (Tuesday): Mocny Czlowiek by Henryk Szaro (1929), live music by Pink Freud, Centro Cultural de Belém, 9:30pm.
14 (Wednesday): Kreutzerova sonáta by Gustav Machatý (1927), live music by musical por Pavel Fajt with Maria do Mar and Maria Radich, Cinema São Jorge, 9:30pm.
15 (Thursday): Even Silence is Cause of Storm (2016) by Adriana Vila & Luis Macías, Cinema São Jorge, 9:30pm
16 (Friday): Mulheres da Beira by Rino Lupo (1923), live piano by Nicholas McNair, Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, 9:30pm.
17: A recreation of documentáries presented at V Congresso Internacional da Crítica Cinematográfica (1931) and A Dança dos Paroxismos. Original composition played by Composição Neil Brand (piano), Cinema São Jorge, 9:30pm