The Luso-Brazilian Film Festival of Santa Maria da Feira starts on Sunday, featuring 15 short competition and “a very strong selection” of 10 feature films in a bid which is “the largest ever” in 18 editions of event.
Organized by the Film Society of the Fair, the event will run until 14 and also includes several non-competitive sessions that purport to disclose the latest production of Portugal and Brazil.
“The festival is a friendly confrontation between two space cinematography linked by the same language,” argues the organization, in a statement sent to Lusa agency.
“In this edition, makes the biggest bet ever in competitive official section of feature films through a very strong team that brings together 10 films in competition and composes an excellent sampling of the latest production, “adds the same source, the purpose of the category in which only one of the works in dispute is Portuguese.
In what refers to short films, the festival records a “significant input of new directors movies”, so the organization argues that this type of work is “a true laboratory” for new values.
The non-competitive program of the festival is then based on “the contrast between the emerging film and the established authors, seeking to expose the open field of languages that moves the current production.”
Pointing the event organization as “one of the most important names in contemporary Brazilian cinema,” the Brazilian Karim Ainouz so will the director in focus on the issue in 2014.
His film “Praia do Futuro” will be displayed on the festival’s opening session and its most emblematic production will be gathered in a retrospective that will announce four of his other works.
The perspective on the emerging cinema, in turn, will be concentrated in the Portuguese Jorge Quintela and Diogo Costa Amarante, the organization of the festival describes as “two directors who are to build amazing absoluta¬mente works.”
In addition to a debate on the production of also Portuguese Manuel Mozos, the program This year also introduces two new sections, beginning with “Volume II”, which aims to monitor the evolution of filmmakers who were betting event in previous editions of the event, as is the case of Gregory Graziosi, Carlos Conceição and Leonardo Mouramateus.
The “Transversalities” in turn, is made up exclusively of “films that cross other arts”, such as Helena Ines, André Guerreiro Lopes and Sofia Marques.
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