Movie theater. Portugal had the highest audience growth – Observer

The Cinema and Audiovisual Institute (ICA) states that Portugal was the European country with the largest margin of growth spectators in the theater in 2015, compared to 2014, in the “Film / from Portugal” released today.

the ICA pointed out already, last January, which, overall, last year, the movie theaters in Portugal had increased by about twenty percent, both in number viewers (2.5 million) and in gross box office (+ EUR 12.1 million) compared to 2014.

“Film / from Portugal” report, the ICA recalls also that 2015 was the year of the death “of one of our greatest filmmakers,” Manoel de Oliveira, the 106 years, there has been “all over the world,” “multiple schedules and film events, it was honored as one of the major drivers of the Seventh Art “.

this year, ICA also highlights the premiere of the documentary room” the cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and I “, João Botelho, presented in April at the IndieLisboa , “a documentary on the method and manner of film by Manoel de Oliveira,” “not life, adventurous and long, but the prodigious cinematic inventions of most of us, whose work coincided grew and maybe just at the same time where the decline of the cinema was accentuated. “

this year, in the context of production and completed Portuguese co-productions, should debut” under the sky “by Nicholas Oulman, whose first work was” With that voice, “a documentary about the creative partnership between Amalia Rodrigues and composer Alain Oulman.

This new documentary film, according to the presentation of the ICA,” is a film about these migration stories ” . “Six to eight eyes of children” of the 1940s, “we now have close to eighty years”, which allow addressing “the journey that hundreds of Jews of thousands made to escape the persecution of the Nazi regime” in Germany, and crossed Europe toward Portugal. “

” El dorado XXI “Salome Lamas, a film about the community installed in the highest altitude in the world, La Rinconada y Cerro Lunar, at 5,500 meters in the Andes Peruvian presented documentary in February, the Berlin Film Festival, must also reach the Portuguese rooms, according to the forecast “Film / from Portugal.”

Another planned debut is “in the moment” Luis Fernandes, “about the roots of free musical improvisation.”

“Ermera Roses” by Luís Filipe Rocha, which tells the story of the parents of José Afonso, who lived through the Japanese occupation of Timor east during World War II (1939-1945), and “Sousa Martins,” Justine Lemahieu on the popular cult doctor José de Sousa Martins (1843-1897), are other documentaries to debut this year.

It is also scheduled to debut “Tarrafal ten strokes on the rail,” John Paradela, “a poetic cinema reflection on the memory of the concentration camp of Tarrafal,” the Cape Verdean island of Santiago, space imprisonment of opponents of the Estado Novo dictatorship (1933-1974).

to the possible Portuguese premieres this year, join even “Turn of the day,” Peter Florencio, and “the fado voices” , Ruben Alves and Christophe Fonseca, with the participation, among others, Carlos do Carmo, Mariza, Camané, Ana Moura, Carminho, Ricardo Ribeiro and Gisela John.

Edgar Pera debuted in January ” the astonished spectator, “a” cine research on the act of seeing cinema “, which led to the festival of Rotterdam and will be presented on the Polish festival Docs Against Gravity.

short films in is expected to premiere of “party Night” by James P. Carvalho, “in the secret kingdom of Bijagos,” Luis Correia and Noemie Mendelle, and “Animal SOS,” Paula Adrião; in the animation area, “Nagging me would die so joveeeeem” Filipe Abranches, “Shards” by José Manuel Ribeiro, “Darwin’s Grotto The” Joana Toste.

In 2015, Portuguese cinema, the supply chain, was seen by 940,063 viewers, registering the highest since 1975, according to the ICA, a total of 14.5 million viewers.

the European cinemas in 2015 had 1.210 million viewers, an increase of 5.2 percent compared to 2014, with Portugal (20.4 percent), Finland (20.3 percent) and Denmark (15.8), to lead this ascent as estimated in February MEDIA Salles program.

the report “to / from Portugal Cinema” was released today by the ICA, the day is presented the Festival of Cinema, taking place from 16 to 18 May, with tickets at 2.5 euros, about 500 rooms at national level.