Synopsis:

Bees are dying because their honeycombs are under attack from hornets; workers are laid off because the creditors of a shipyard require to get paid. The director, looking straight into the camera, hints at the similarity between the two catastrophes, and then confesses not to know how to connect them, breaks down and runs away from his own set. He is not the only person unfit for the job. Firemen do not put out fires because they lack the equipment and men as well as enthusiasm. The only people...

color, digital, 125 min

PROJECTION:

Friday 03.11.2017 AT 18:30

Synopsis:

Episode one: Simao killed four women, among them his own daughter and wife. In spite of that, he became the hero of his street. The law is the enemy of Portuguese people, and thee enemy of their enemy is their friend. Episode two: in this burlesque representative of the law tries to determine the cause-and-effect chain that led to the crime, but finds that she is faced with an impossible task: in an unjust society nobody is just and everybody is at fault for something. However, there are not eno...

color, digital, 131 min

PROJECTION:

Saturday 04.11.2017 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

Scheherazade is lonely, separated from people of whom she tells stories and she is starting to lack inspiration. In secrecy she meets with her father. Scheherazade’s last story takes her to the workers’ neighborhood in Lisbon. People who live there have birds who have stopped singing a nicely as they did before and they educate them further. The carnival ends and shows us reality that is more surreal from everything we have seen so far…    This trilogy is inspired wi...

color, digital, 125 min

PROJECTION:

Sunday 05.11.2017 AT 19:00