Driving Lesson, Pedro, A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, Flores
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Location
Modern Collection – Multi Use RoomR. Dr. Nicolau Bettencourt, Lisbon
Talk with the directors 20:00 (in Portuguese only)
Driving Lesson, by André Santos & Marco Leão
Portugal, 2015, 17’
Original Language: Portuguese
Subtitles in English and Portuguese
Translation in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP)
Copy provided by Portugal Film – Portuguese Film Agency
Support for International Circulation, in 2015, to participate in Nouveau Cinéma Festival in Montréal, Canada by the Gulbenkian Portuguese Language and Culture Programme/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Synopsis
While a teenage boy learns how to drive, a woman walks her elderly dog through the woods. As the evening settles she realizes that it’s not too late to take action
Pedro, by André Santos & Marco Leão
Portugal, 2016, 20’
Original language: Portuguese
Subtitle in English and Portuguese
Copy provided by Portugal Film – Portuguese Film Agency
Support for film production, in 2014, by the Gulbenkian Programme for Portuguese Language and Culture/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Support for International Circulation, in 2016, to participate at Sundance International Film Festival
Synopsis
Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach.
André Santos (born 1984, Lisboa) and MARCO LEÃO (born 1984, Lisbon)
Between 2008/2018, André and Marco, have developed seven shorts screened and awarded around the world. They’re writing their first feature film script - NOWHERE (2017 Faliro House | Sundance Screenwriters Lab) and are also working on a documentary - INTO THE FOREST (Doc Station 2018/Berlinale Talents). Porto/Post/Doc held the first full retrospective of their work. Their film “Pedro” was the first Portuguese short to be part of Sundance.
Joint filmography
[2018] Self Destructive Boys (short)
[2016] Pedro (short)
[2015] Driving Lesson (short)
[2013] Bad Blood (short)
[2011] Infinite (short)
[2010] Wild Horses (short)
[2008] Our Necessity for Comfort (short)
A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, by Jorge Jácome
France, Portugal, 2015, 15’
Copy provided by Jorge Jácome and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains
Support for film production, in 2014) by the Gulbenkian Programme for Portuguese Language and Culture/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Synopsis
Mysterious relations between rocks, plants and other living creatures.
Flores, by Jorge Jácome
Portugal, 2017, 26’
Original Language: Portuguese
Subtitles in English and Portuguese
Copy provided by Portugal Film – Portuguese Film Agency
Support for International Circulation to participate in the International Festivals of Toronto (Canada), San Sebastian and Santiago de Compostela (Espanha) and Zagreb (Croacia) by the Gulbenkian Portuguese Language and Culture Programme/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Synopsis
In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands.
Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands. The filmic wandering becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity, and the roles we assume in the places we come from.
https://youtu.be/FgEwTsyWEF4
Jorge Jácome (born 1988) is a filmmaker, graduated from theLisbon Theatre and Cinema School, and from Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, in Tourcoing. In his works he investigates relations between utopias, melancholy, disappearance and desire. His films have been shown in several national and international festivals and in exhibition contexts in Palais de Tokyo, in La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and Tabakalera.
His film Flores won several awards (the Grand Prix at 25 FPS, the Promotional Award at Winterthur Film Festival, The First Prize for the Best Film at Punto de Vista, Best Short from the International Competition and Audience Award at Hamburg International Short Film Festival, among others) and Fiesta Forever (the York University Award for Best Student Work on Screen at Images Festival, Toronto. In 2015 he also won the “Studio Collector” prize with A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST. Parallel to his work as a filmmaker he regularly collaborates in performing arts projects.
[2017] Flores (short)
[2016] Fiesta Forever (short)
[2015] A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST (short)
[2013] Plutão (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.
Next Sessions
Sun, 2 December – 18:30
From NY With Love, by André Valentim Almeida
Day 32, by André Valentim Almeida
Fri, 7 december – 18:30
Revolution Hunter, by Margarida Rêgo
Metaphor or Sadness Turned Upside Down, by Catarina Vasconcelos
Yama No Anata – Beyond the Mountains, by Aya Koretzky
Sat, 8 december – 18:30
The new Testament of Jesus Christ according to John, by Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel
Sun, 9 december – 18:30
Damned Summer, by Pedro Cabeleira