“We have a bit the feeling that there is a stigma that is cinema ‘author’, the film ‘independent’: the characters do not seem to do anything, there are very few dialogues …” It is this “stigma” thus defined by Miguel Valverde, who IndieLisboa to dispose off.
And it is (also but not only) so that the comedy João Leitão Captain Falcon gives, on Thursday at 18:30 in St. George cinema, the “kick-off” of the 12th edition of the International Festival Film Independent, which runs until May 3. It is not the only comedy festival program, nor is it the only opening session of the first day will have no less than three times the boot (already there we will).
But the presence of Captain Falcon is nothing casual. A comedy about a fascist superhero in the 1960s, defends the Portuguese homeland from enemies who want to end the regime of Salazar, is a subversive parody the New State, began with a short film pilot for a possible TV series . After the Portuguese channels have not caught on the project, the director João Leitão and the actor Gonçalo Waddington strove to make it happen as long produced independently.
Captain Falcon debuts today across the country with 45 copies, a release frankly longer than usual for a film shown in the Indie program, and Valverde, one of the directors the exhibition evokes the PUBLIC very close relationship with Waddington, present in numerous films selected over the past 12 years. “This is a project in which he engaged himself, and it stands as a different kind of comedy than usual. And we are with this type of film, with the idea that this film has to do with us. Moreover, usually the opening, here as Cannes or Venice, is a festive session which do not necessarily reflect the competitive teams. “
This idea of” festive session “is important in explaining the” multiplier effect “of first night of the festival in three official openings offset in time and space. Captain Falcon , inherently more “media” of the lot, is the first of three. It follows, also in St. George and at 21.30, a session in partnership with the festival Days of Music, which takes place this weekend, CCB Weekend: a concert of Alis Ubbo Ensemble string quartet preceding the
Three ports of entry possible, then, to ten days of cinema. Corresponding to Nuno Sena, the other director of Indie, to such logic to demystify the independent film, “The Noah Baumbach, for example, do not need the Indie, but it is a gateway to a more inattentive or less informed public. Have a higher profile films brings an audience that can then go to the discovery. “
Also to help this discovery, the films come this year,” tidy “otherwise, in what will be the most visible difference Edition 2015. Out of the thematic sections as IndieMusic or IndieJunior, non-competitive program is reorganized into a new mega-section, called Silvestre in honor of João César Monteiro movie, with a “cauldron” movies “strong and out format “. It is, again, an option of “de-stigmatize” as Sena explains: “It is a storage that eliminates some divisions sometimes arbitrary and unclear; seems to be more faithful to the festival’s mission of being a plural coexistence between genres and authors. Best represents the spirit of Indie. “In parallel, another new section” experience “, Hellmouth, or make room for” cult films “and tangent to the type of cinema that seemed navigate helpless in previous editions.
The question, however, is inevitable: a festival, any festival, is always subject to “harvest” the year in which it happens, and the diplomatic game involving competitors, exclusive, up-premieres, distributors, partners. .. “Of course, compared to 2003, there is an added difficulty in scheduling: this year we have seen 4500 film, when the first year we started with a thousand,” admits Sena, exemplifying with last year, where the Grand Prix was given to the film of the Chilean Alejandro Fernández Almendros, Kill the un Hombre . “Last year we felt a certain exhaustion of a narrative model, so the competition threw for completely different sides, less evident. This year, there is a return to a more classic movies because it seemed to us that were not just mere repetition of formulas, brought something new “
This bring something new -. Patent in such distant origins of works as Gueros the Mexican Alonso Ruizpalacios, Sivas the Turkish Kaan Müjdeci or It Back on Fifth the Brazilian André Novais Oliveira – is central to the festival. “We will not mark time,” says Sena. “We will not limit ourselves to follow, we also try to anticipate. And if we now have leeway to do this is also because we already have a history behind it is simpler to get to certain authors. “As is the case of the two Heroes Independent editor in 2015, reflecting the mix of present and future where the Indie bet: Mia Hansen-French Løve, one of the few names of the young French cinema has come regularly to our rooms ( The Father of My Children , A Youth Love ), and Whit Stillman, one of the most unique and idiosyncratic movie names “indie” American, whose films have never been shown by. “After 12 years of Indie, it is difficult to find original retrospectives that have not been done by anyone else in Portugal. So finding Whit Stillman territory as ‘virgin’ is bliss “
Not surprisingly, the Stillman films -. Transmetropolitan , Barcelona , The Last Days of Disco and Damsels in Distress – are comedies. Another think to end the stigma.
News updated at 15h17, introducing synopsis of Captain Falcon
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