Between-places II
Black Gaze – Showcase of Black Cinema in Portugal
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Date
- 19:30 / Cancelled 19:30 / Sold out Saturday, 19:30
Location
Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianPricing
10% – Cartão Gulbenkian and Cartão Gulbenkian Mais
The ‘between-places’ condition experienced by people who are simultaneously European and African is reflected vividly in the works they produce.
In ‘Si Destino’ (2016), by Vanessa Fernandes, Awa’s story develops due to the influence exerted by her family, in Guinea-Bissau, over her father, in Lisbon. Awa’s future is put at risk because of laws issued in her parents’ native land. The film also deals with the transitory nature of invisible powers and laws that spawn in silence.
Denise Fernandes, the daughter of Cape Verdean immigrants, who was born in Lisbon and grew up in Switzerland, tells, in her short film ‘Nha Mila’ (2020), the story of a stopover at Portela airport by a woman in transit from a European country to Cape Verde. The action of the film follows Mila’s visit to the outlying neighbourhood where members of her family live, although this story evokes not just a single journey, but a collective experience of diaspora, in which the ‘between’ becomes a fertile space of subjectiveness, as well as of vulnerability and destitution.
Biographies
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Denise Fernandes
Denise Fernandes (Lisbon, 1990) graduated in film directing and production at the International Academy of Audiovisual Sciences in Lugano (CISA), in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, she studied directing at the International School of Cinema and TV (EICTV) in Cuba, where she directed the short film ‘Pan Sin Mermelada’, which earned her an Upcoming Talent nomination at the Solothurn Festival. Her first feature film, ‘Hanami’, premièred at the Locarno Festival, in 2024, where she won the Best Emerging Filmmaker prize.
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Vanessa Fernandes
Vanessa Fernandes (Guinea-Bissau, 1978) is a filmmaker working across fiction, documentary, and experimental cinema. She also engages in artivism, multimedia installation, and performance. She has directed short films such as ‘Tradição e imaginação’, ‘Mikambaru’, ‘Si destinu’, ‘Fiji’, ‘Cura’, ‘MadMudPool’, and the RTPLab series ‘Matemática Salteada’.
Programme
19:30 / 'Nha Mila', by Denise Fernandes
19:50 / 'Si destinu', by Vanessa Fernandes
20:15 / Talk
21:05 / Closing
Credits
‘Nha Mila’, by Denise Fernandes
Script and directing
Denise Fernandes
Production
Sandro Aguilar
Luis Urbano
O Som e a Fúria
Elda Guidinetti
Ventura Film
Cast
Yaya Correia
Maria Sanches
Cleo Tavares
Lourença Semedo
Script
Denise Fernandes
Editing
Pedro Marques
Photography
Marta Simões
Sound
Miguel Moraes Cabral
António Porém Pires
‘Si destino’, by Vanessa Fernandes
Script and directing
Vanessa Fernandes
Cast
Núria Silva
Karyna Silva Gomes
Cipriano Oquiniame
Mercedes Sani
Arnaldo Baldé
Larisa Baldé
Gabriela Matos
Extras
Armando Pinho
Lino Butiam Có
Ansumane Biai
Vanessa Fernandes
Fatumata Sani
Ana Margarida Reis
Maria Emilia Cardoso
Adalgisa Évora
Ivanilda Veiga
Bacar Ansu
Production
Vanessa Fernandes and Marisa Freitas, Taluma Filmes
Director of photography
Jan Kleinpeter
Camera
Ivo Costa
Art direction
Sérgio Carvalho
Original soundtrack
Bilan, Projecto Hip Hop Baton
Audio recording
Ricardo Alves
Assistant director
Ricardo Queirós
Miguel Veiga
Costume designer
Adalgisa Évora
Beatriz Arrojado
Marisa Freitas
Make-up
Adalgisa Évora
Illustration
Cipriano Oquiniame
Sound editing
Paulo das Cavernas
Mastering
Miguel Moreiras
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