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Felicidade numa panela
(Happiness in a pot)




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Trailer:


Technical info:

2024, 19’, HD, color, sound

Synopsis:

While cooking, Yaxuan notices that her pot makes a peculiar sound. That sound will generate a wandering around food rituals, which appear as a bridge between past and present.

With:

Yaxuan Zhang
Sérgio Monteiro-Rodrigues
César Oliveira
Rui Lima and
Sérgio Martins

Presented by:

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian & Escola das Artes (Universidade Católica do Porto)

Sound recording and post-production:

Marcelo Tavares

Color grading:

Andreia Bertini

Statement:

In “Happiness in a Pot“, I wanted to explore the idea of starting with something very small and day-to-day. I began with a cooking pot that made a peculiar musical sound and decided to let the film and chance guide the way. It was made in intimacy, with only me and Marcelo Tavares in the crew. The film was very open from the beginning, and I think it still is, giving a lot of space for the viewer to see what they want in it. I think giving time for immersion in something mundane can be a type of resistance.




Screenings:

IndieLisboa, National Competition (Portugal)
Luz no jardim: short film screening in Lisbon moderated by Apertura Institute (Portugal)

Bonjour Eric



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Technical info:

2024, 4’, mixed formats, sound, color, b&w

Synopsis:

A film letter to friend and Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels.

Support:

With the support of SABAM.



Screenings:

Lago Film Fest (Italy)
aCinema space, Milwaukee (USA)

Cosas bonitas y un par de tragedias
(Beautiful things and a couple of tragedies)




2023, 12min, 16mm to DCP, color, b&w, sound

Synopsis:

Cosas bonitas y un par de tragedias is an audiovisual poem that investigates the possible links between death and travel, through the juxtaposition of two types of “goodbye”. The film was made by collecting images captured in 16mm film and sound recordings, both deriving from the lives of two people. Then the collection was organized, and the significance of the found elements appeared.



with:

Emmanuel Dante Barnabeu 
Zarah van Eenoo


with the support of SABAM.

Meine Liebe




2020, 6min, HD, color, sound

Synopsis:

A tribute to a tomato plant that only gave one tomato.



Screenings:

IndieLisboa International Film Festival (Award for Best Portuguese Short Film) [Portugal]
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival [Portugal]
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma [Canada]
Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português [Portugal]
ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao [Spain]
Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers [France]
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival [UK]
Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln [Germany]
Mostra de Cinema Português - Vila Franca de Xira [Portugal]
Lago Film Fest [Italy]
Shorts Mexico [Mexico]
Prémios Sophia [Portugal]
Festival Cinespaña [France]
Frames - Portuguese Film Festival [Sweden]
Mostra Nacional Jovens Criadores [Portugal]
ARQUIVO & PESQUISA: Relatos Sagrados [Brazil]
Kunsthalle Münster [Germany]


Link for the distributor: www.portugalfilm.org/film/meine_liebe

Verniz (Glaze)



This film is available for free, but you can also donate here.






Technical info:

2018, 14min, 2K, color, 5.1 sound

Synopsis: 

A rhythmic bus ride with no protagonist. Time is stretched allowing the viewer to figure out the passenger’s interactions and to wonder what may be at the end of their routes.


With:
António Júlio Duarte
Dennis Correia
Gabriel Margarido Pais
José Lopes
Marianne Harlé
Marília Villaverde Cabral
Roxana Lugojan
Simão Godinho
Directed by: Clara Jost
Production: Rui Ferreira
DOP: Rosa Vale Cardoso
Sound: Marcelo Tavares
Editing: Elisa Campos





Screenings:

Córtex (Portugal)
Mifec 2019 (Prémio Especial do Júri) (Portugal)
Semana da Criação Contemporânea - Lycée Français Charles Lepierre (Portugal)
Cinalfama (Menção Honrosa) (Portugal)
Curtas de Vila do Conde 2019 - Take One! (Portugal)
Cinema no Aquário - ZDB (Portugal)
Mostra de Cinema de Vila Franca de Xira (Portugal)
Ymotion (Portugal)
Caminhos Cinema Português (Portugal)
INTERNATIONAL FILMSCHOOL FESTIVAL TETOUAN (Marroco)
Porto Post Doc (Portugal)
TV - Canal180
TV - Cinemax Curtas (RTP2)
Novocine (online)
(A)MOSTRA DE CINEMA PORTUGUÊS (Estremoz) (Portugal)
Cinemateca Portuguesa (ciclo 50 anos ESTC) (Portugal)


Link with interview: 

www.novocine.pt/Glaze

A scheme from the shooting’s prep: