Open Doors

Associação de Moradores da Lomba Rua de Vera Cruz, 23, Porto

Besides being a documentary about the genesis and implementation of an intervention project, it is a discussion about the ways of seeing the world, about conflicts generated by disorderly urban expansion, industrial abandonment or prejudice about social housing, exploring the tensions between popular and erudite theater, trying to tell the stories and show the things […]

1000 Silent Heroins

Associação de Moradores da Lomba Rua de Vera Cruz, 23, Porto

Community arts can change lives. Through the eyes of five women, the theater group Women Connected is introduced. While the collective was working hard for a sold-out premiere in one of Rotterdam's biggest theaters, the film gives us the chance to meet Aïda, Jacqueline, Sara, Charahzad and Shamin. These women take us on a roller […]

A Tree in the Square – the portrait of the community at Bons Sons

Associação de Moradores da Lomba Rua de Vera Cruz, 23, Porto

A portrait of the community of Cem Soldos, guided by the steps of five characters who build it, arm in arm, with those who inhabit it. Filmed during Bons Sons, in the festival's ninth edition in 2018, Uma Árvore no Largo – a portrait of the community at Bons Sons is a journey of discovery […]

Racing City

Cinema Trindade Rua do Almada 413, Porto

Racing City is a pulsating and radically collective Brazil. Inside the process of the show, the encounter with the overflow of daily urgencies, contradictions, joys, deliriums, wounds and powers through the voice and birth of the Coletivo Bonobando, an inspiring group that expands from the stage to the sea, from the sea to the city, […]

2 and 2, are four

Cinema Trindade Rua do Almada 413, Porto

We have become accustomed, wrongly, to fearing furiously the fragility of our bodies. This fragility is so controversial to us that we induce in ourselves the typical, restrained movements that are already tired. Again and again. The same movements, the fears, the counted expirations, the subtracted bodies, the blinded horizons. But there comes a day […]

CAIR

Cinema Trindade Rua do Almada 413, Porto

Falling without a net. Free-falling without expectations of seeing the ground on which to land. Narratives in a pandemic time, confusing and unpredictable, where fragility has intensified and new fissures have opened. CAIR approaches the precariousness of real people by trying to let their stories speak and not falling into the temptation of talking about […]

A Tree in the Square – the portrait of the community at Bons Sons

Pequeno Auditório Culturgest Rua Arco do Cego, 50 1000–300 Lisboa, Lisboa

A portrait of the community of Cem Soldos, guided by the steps of five characters that build it, arm in arm, with those who live there. Filmed during Bons Sons, in the ninth edition of the festival in 2018, Uma Árvore no Largo - retrato da comunidade no Bons Sons is a journey of discovery […]

1000 Silent Heroins

Pequeno Auditório Culturgest Rua Arco do Cego, 50 1000–300 Lisboa, Lisboa

Community arts can change lives. Through the eyes of five women, the theater group Women Connected is introduced. While the collective was working hard for a sold-out premiere in one of Rotterdam's largest theaters, the film introduces us to Aïda, Jacqueline, Sara, Charahzad and Shamin. These women take us on a roller coaster ride of […]

Racing City

Racing City is a pulsating and radically collective Brazil. Inside the process of the show, the encounter with the overflow of daily urgencies, contradictions, joys, deliriums, wounds and powers through the voice and birth of the Coletivo Bonobando, an inspiring group that expands from the stage to the sea, from the sea to the city, […]

CAIR

Falling without a net. Free-falling without expectations of seeing the ground to land on. Narratives in a pandemic time, confusing and unpredictable, where fragility has intensified and new fissures have opened. CAIR approaches the precariousness of real people by trying to let their stories speak and not falling into the temptation of talking about them. […]