A festival of “cultural turmoil” to return the audience to the cinema Audience.en

in A moment that speaks so much of the film festivals as a "problem" that affects the market of distribution and exhibition, it is refreshing to look at an event that wants to be part of the solution. The sign in the third edition of Porto/Post/Doc, which kicks off Saturday (26) at the Rivoli and Steps Manuel and extends until December 3, wants to be more than just a showcase of "cinema(s) of the real": want to be a moment of "cultural turmoil", "mark continued" in the words of the director Dario Oliveira. "A festival with a programming of excellence" which "must fulfill an obligation very difficult", as he says: "make people come in, have pleasure, and want to come back. With the emptying of the cities, al so the audience of the cinemas disappeared and in particular in the Port. And to make it come back just the same with a festival. She lost the habit of living together, of being in a group to see movies. But it does not discourages."

Proof of that "stubbornness" is the association responsible for the competition – and that is also called the Porto/Post/Doc – maintains, since 2014, a weekly program at Passos Manuel, under the generic There are Movies in Low! "It’s a hard job", says the responsible, "but in addition to our members, which has surpassed the hundred, and they always come, every time we have a public university that I rediscovered the pleasure of the conversations around the film and is left at the end of the sessions. To exhaust a room is a cause of joy."

The goal continues to be to grow the audience of the festival – which this year has an ambitious programme with a hundred movies, with three titles in the Portuguese between the 13 scaled to the competition – Eldorado XXI of Salomé Lamas, Ama-san Cláudia Varejão and Tarrafal by Pedro Neves. But this growth of the public may not be made of “any way”, in the words of Dario Oliveira: “we don’t want the movie-flyer, nor the “hard line” of the documentary compromised. And also do not want to replicate the Festival, which for us is the best and most representative event of its kind; we walked side-by-side, this is not a competition. Our approach is another, showing films that explore a different approach of the real, a language very close to that of documentary films that sometimes are not accompanied by a reflection on what is most urgent to show you."

A reflection that becomes, in the words of Oliveira, by such "marks continuous on where is the real, the spirit, the science, the reason, the senses": "The cinema is not dead, and it is secondary if it is done on film or with cameras Go Pro: they are mere tools for the creation of new languages within a form of artistic expression very important in popular culture. The rules of the game have changed, and it is a little difficult to define what we will do in the next few years. But we walk depending on what is going on."