Damned Summer, by Pedro Cabeleira
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Modern Collection – Multi Use RoomR. Dr. Nicolau Bettencourt, Lisbon
Talk with the director 20:45 (in Portuguese only)
Damned Summer, by Pedro Cabeleira,
Portugal, 2017, 128’
Original language: Portuguese
Subtitles in English and Portuguese
Translation in Portuguese Sign Language
Copy provided by: Filmin
Support for film production (post-production), in 2015, by the Gulbenkian Portuguese Language and Culture Programme/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkianand for International Circulation, in 2017, to participate at the international festivals of Cine de Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Torino Film Festival (Turim, Itália,) and Tiblisi International Film Festival (Tiblisi, Georgia)
Synopsis
It is the beginning of Summer and Chico has just graduated from College. He has no prospects nor expectations of a career and his holidays are just starting, with friends, dinners, parties and late nights. Music is a constant presence in those afternoons of leisure, drugs, heartbreaks and psychedelic moments. Damned Summer is an impetus from the adrenaline of a drifting young generation, in the Lisbon landscape.
Pedro Cabeleira (born 1992, Entroncamento, Portugal). Graduated in Cinema at the Lisbon School of Theatre and Dance, in 2013. Verão Danado (Mad Summer) is his first feature film in which he experiments free improvisation techniques and explores a theme close to his own life context, working with more than one hundred actors from his school days and with a team composed only by members of the same school. He created the production company Videolotion, along with colleagues at the film school. He is currently developing his new film, Entroncamento and starting the pre-production of a series of new projects of young directors.
(2017) Verão Danado
(2013) Entroncamento (short)
About The Gulbenkian and The Portuguese Cinema III
The intimacy and the country: a desire of a future is the thematic axis of the third edition of the cycle The Gulbenkian and Portuguese Cinema. This year’s Edition presents twelve films, six feature films and six short, and is organised in six sessions , on the weekends of November 30 – December 1,2 and December 7,8 and 9, curated by Francisco Valente (critic and film programmer currently working at Cinemateca Portuguesa)
This cycle presents films that result from the last tem years of support by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, for the production and the international circulation of the Portuguese contemporary cinema.