Teresa Villaverde is one of the filmmakers who will be dedicated to a retrospective at this year’s edition of the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival – LEFFEST.
A tribute "more than deserved" as I said, this Tuesday (11 October), at the Centro Cultural de Belém, the director of the festival, Paulo Branco, the purpose of the presentation of the full program of the event.
At the festival, which goes on your 10.Th edition and which takes place between 4 and 13 November, will be passed back in full to the work of the director, producer and screenwriter. A route marked by "a certain Portuguese" and focused on themes such as "childhood and adolescence, the inadequacy and the difficulty of interpersonal communication", describes the information on the website of the LEFFEST.
Considered one of the most important names in the generation of Portuguese director who emerged in the 90s, Teresa Villaverde highlighted with the films 'The Age’(1991), a reconstitution of Portugal from the beginning of the decade of 70, with a focus on the colonial war, 'Three Brothers' (1994), which won for Maria de Medeiros the Prize for Best Actress at the Venice film Festival, and 'The Mutants' (1998), selected for the Cannes film Festival, in the section 'Un Certain Regard'.
In 2006, the director directs the movie 'Trance', which depicts the illegal immigration and the trafficking of women. The film was selected for the festivals of Cannes ('Directors ‘ Fortnight'), and Toronto, consolidating the international projection of the filmmaker.
In the retrospective will be also displayed the films 'the Swan' (2011), which brings together themes of the previous works and evocations of his early works and of the feature film 'Water and Salt' (2001), as well as segments of collective works in which he participated, 'Visions of Europe' (2004), 'Venice 70–Future Reloaded' (2013) and 'Bridges of Sarajevo' (2014). There is yet to see the documentary from 2004 about the artist Pedro Cabrita Reis, entitled 'in Favour of Clarity".
in Addition to the director of the Portuguese, who this year will debut a new film – 'the Lap', with Beatriz Batarda as main protagonist, also Emir Kusturica will have the right to a review, having already confirmed their presence at the festival. The author of 'Black Cat, White Cat', will be present at the ante-premiere of its new 'On the Milky Road', starring Monica Bellucci.
the festival will pass also the director Jim Jarmusch, actress Anna Karina, to mark the retrospective dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard, Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Paredes, the poet and the syrian Adonis, who is launching the book "The rainbow Of the Moment", and the Spanish writer Enrique Villa-Matas, that he will "Marienbad Mirror".
Already in the field of film itself, and the competition 10.Th edition of the LEFFEST will be made with "American Honey," Andrea Arnold, "Bangkok Nites", Katsuya Tomita, "Christine", Antonio Campos, "Dogs", by Bogdan Mirica, "Elle", Paul Verhoeven, "El Futuro Perfecto", de Nele Wohlatz, "Harmonium", Kôji Fukada, "Big Big World", Rehab Erdem, "Little Men," Ira Sachs, "Nocturama", de Bertrand Bonello, "The Last Family", Jan P. Matuszynski, "The Last of Us", by Ala Eddine Slim, and "Sand Storm", Elite Zexer.
The event, which will pass through 11 rooms and spaces of the municipalities of Lisbon and Cascais, it opens with the new film from Mel Gibson, 'The hero of Hacksaw Ridge', and closes with the première of 'Nocturnal Animals', designer and film director Tom Ford.
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