This Week We Recommend

23-28: Monnlight by Barry Jenkins, Centro Multimeios, Espinho, 4:30pm & 9:30pm

24-05: Fantasporto, Rivoli, Porto. For more info: http://www.fantasporto.com/home

Friday 24: Hurlements En Faveur de Sade by Guy Debord, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 3:30pm

Friday 24: Storm Over Lisbon by George Sherman, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 7pm

Friday 24: Silence by Martin Scorsese, Cinema Teixeira de Pascoaes, Amarante, 9:30pm

Friday 24: The Burmese Harp by Kon Ichikawa, Igreja de São Francisco, Loulé, 9:30pm

Friday 24: Le Couer Fantomê by Philippe Garrel, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 9:30pm

Friday 24: Bullitt by Peter Yates, Cineclube, Caminha, 9:45pm

Saturday 25: A Saliva do Lobo by Joana Torgal & Afonso Pimento + An American Romance by King Vidor, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 3:30pm

Saturday 25: Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt by Ada Ushpiz, Casa das Artes, Porto, 6pm

Saturday 25: In Girium Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni by Guy Debord, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 9:30pm

Saturday 25: Mommy by Xavier Dolan, Cinema Venepor, Maia, 9:30pm

Saturday 25: Max Mon Amour by Nagisa Oshima, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 9:30pm

Sunday 26: Juste la fin du monde by Xavier Dolan, Teatro Municipal, Vila do Conde, 4pm & 9:45pm

Monday 27: Guy Debord, Son Art et Son Temps by Brigitte Conrad & Guy Debord, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 6:30pm

Monday 27: Macao, L'Enfer Du Jour by Jean Delannoy, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 7pm

Monday 27: Napoléon by Sacha Guitry, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 6:30pm

Tuesday 28: Fuocoammare by Gianfranco Rosi, IPDJ, Faro, 9:30pm

Tuesday 28: Frank by Lenny Abrahamson, Casa das Artes, Guimarães, 9:45pm

Wednesday 01: Design For Living by Living, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 3:30pm

Wednesday 01: Heaven Can Wait by Ernst Lubitsch, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 7pm

Wednesday 01: Alas by Larisa Shepitko, Nimas, Lisboa, 7pm

Wednesday 01: Elle by Paul Verhoeven, Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Santarém, 9:30pm

Thursday 02: Monte Carlo by Ernst Lubitsch, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 3:30pm

Thursday 02: Forbidden Paradise by Ernst Lubitsch, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 7pm

Thursday 02: Lenny by Bob Fosse, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 9:30pm

Fantasporto 2017

Fantasporto 2017 runs 20-05 at Teatro Rivoli, Porto. The festival includes the following sections: Fantastic Film,
Directors Week, Orient Express, Fantas In Shorts, Portuguese Film Panorama, Premiere and Panorama and Retrospectives.


With more than 100 films to be exhibit, the Festival opens with The Age of Shadows by Jee-woon and closes with Through the Shadow by Walter Lima.

Some highligts:

Directors festured in Directors Week are; Eduardo W. Roy jr, Emily Harris & Ate de Jong, Khaled el Agar, Vassilis Mazomeno, Steve Balderson, José Pedro Lope, Kim Ki Duk, Jee-woon Kim, Roland Vranik and
Licinio Azevedo.

Love is Thicker Than Water-  Emily Harri &, Ate de Jong

On Orient Express Competition there's: Seoul Station by Yeon Sang-ho (South Korea), Saving Sally by Avid Liongoren (Philippines), The Wailing by Na Hong (South Korea),  Tuo by Roderick Cabrido (Philippines), Pamilya Ordinaryo by Eduardo Roy Jr (Philippines), The Net by Kim Ki Duk (South Korea), Dearest Sister by Mattie (Laos) and  The Age of Shadows by Jee-woon Kim (South Korea).

Seoul Station, Yeon Sang-ho

Offical Section Out of Competition, will show, among others, The High Frontier ny Wojciech Kaspersk, Seoul Station- by Yeon Sangho, Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies by Dominik Hart, Don’t Hang Up by Alexis Wajsbro, Dearest Sister by Mattie Do and Land of the Good Children by Olga Kaptur Tomenko.  

Dearest Sister, Mattie Do

For more info: http://www.fantasporto.com/home

This Week We Recommend:

17-19: Cortex , Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval, Sintra. For more info: http://www.festivalcortex.com/?lang=en

17-22: Silence by Martin Scorcese, Centro Multimeios, Espinho, 4:30pm & 9:30pm

20-05: Fantasporto - Oporto International Film Festival​, Rivoli, Porto, For more info: http://www.fantasporto.com/home

Friday 17: Les Disparus de Sain-Agil by Christian-Jaque, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 3:30pm

Friday 17: Hello Sister! by Eric von Stroheim, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 7pm

Friday 17: Nos Interstícios da Realidade ou o Cinema de António de Macedo by João Monteiro, Cinema Teixeira de Pascoaes, Amarante, 9:30pm

Friday 17: Z by Costa-Gavras, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 9:30pm

Saturday 18: Ernest et Celestine by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner, IPDj, Faro, 11am

Saturday 18: Recordações da Casa Amarela by João César Monteiro + Titicut Follies by Frederick Wiseman, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 3:30pm

Saturday 18: Raining Stones by Ken Loach, IPDJ, Faro, 4pm

Saturday 18: Che Stano Chiamarsi Federico by Ettore Scola, Casa das Artes, Porto, 6pm

Saturday 18: A Fost Sau N-A-Fost? by Corneliu Porumboiu, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 9:30pm

Sunday 19: The Commune by Thomas Vinterberg, Teatro Municipal, Vila do Conde, 4pm & 9:45pm

Sunday 19: Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan, Casa das Artes, Guimarães, 9:45pm

Monday 20: Cum Mi-Am Petrecut Sfarsitul Lumii by Catalin Mitulescu, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 7pm

Monday 20: Camelot by  Joshua Logan, Forum Luisa Todi, Setúbal, 9pm

Tuesday 21: The Great Flamarion by Anthony Mann, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 3:30pm

Tuesday 21: Society by Brian Yuzna, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 6:30pm

Tuesday 21: The Commune by Thomas Vinterberg, Cine-Teatro Paraíso, Tomar, 7pm

Tuesday 21: Eltern by Robert Thalheim, Goethe-Institut, Lisboa, 7:30pm

Tuesday 21: Forushande (The Salesman) by Asgar Farhadi, IPDJ, Viseu, 9:30pm

Tuesday 21: Ultimatum by Robert Wiene & Robert Siodmak, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 9:30pm

Tuesday 21: Little Men by Ira Sachs, Cine-Teatro Avenida, Castelo Branco, 9:30pm

Tuesday 21: La loi du marché by Stéphane Brizé, IPDJ, Faro, 9:30pm

Tuesday 21: Shut Up and Play the Hits by Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace., Casa das Artes, Guimarães, 9:45pm

Wednesday 22: Senya Ichiya Monogatari by Eiichi Yamamoto, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 6:30pm

Wednesday 22: Gibraltar by Fyodor Otsep, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 6:30pm

Wednesday 22: La Diagonale du GFou by Richard Dembo, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 9:30pm

Wednesday 22:  Otac na sluzbenom Put (When Father Was Away on Business) by Emir Kusturica, Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Santarém, 9:30pm

Wednesday 22: Shortcutz Gumarães, Cineclube, Guimarães, 10pm

Thursday 23: La Sociéte du Spectacle by Guy Debord, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 6:30pm

Thursday 23: Pièges by Robert Siodmak, Cinemateca, Lisboa, 7pm

Thursday 23: Vor Der Morgenrote (Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe) by Maria Schrader, Casa das Artes, Porto, 9:30pm

Thursday 23: Chevalier by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Casa das Artes, Famalicão, 9:45pm

Thursday 23: Tocata e Fuga - Os Dias de Mário Cláudio by Jorge Campos, Cine-Teatro Garrett, Póvoa de Varzim, 9:45pm

CÓRTEX 2017

Córtex - Festival de Curtas Metragens de Sintra runs 16-19 @ Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval, Sintra.

The short film festival has a nacional and international competition; Hemisfério, dedicated to cultural difference and another type of reality; Mini-Cortex, for children, and will show Jane Campion earlier filmes, like Passionless Moments, A Girl's Own Story and After Hours. 

Passionless Moments, Jane Campion

In Competition, among many others, there will be shown: A Movie for You (Iman Behrouzi), Dormiente (Tommaso Donati), Limbo (Konstantina Kotzamani), Sem Fim (Joã0 Tenera), Menina (Simão Cayatte), Stacey and the Alien (Nelson Polfliet) and Very Long Play Vinyl (Vladimir Morozov). 

Menina, Simão Cayatte

On Hemisfério: Dear Marianne (Mark Jenkin), Little Soldier (Stella Corradi), A Love Story (Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara), A Man Returned (Mahdi Fleifel), Murderous Injustice (Gavin Scott Whitfield) and Your Mother And I (Anna Maguire).

Your Mother and I, Anna Maguire

For more info: http://www.festivalcortex.com/?lang=en