In collaboration with Apordoc, the festival organises Arché Porto, a creative development lab aimed at filmmakers with projects in different stages of development and production. Comprised of feedback sessions, the workshop aims to provide a space for deep reflection on the creative process, free from immediate financial and logistical goals. Over the course of three days, a renowned guest tutor will give feedback on the participants' projects, before the projects are pitched to industry guests attending the festival. At the end, an international jury will award a prize for the best project.
TUTOR: ANDRÉS DUQUE
O seu trabalho situa-se na periferia da não-ficção com um forte viés ensaístico. Os seus filmes têm recebido inúmeros prémios em festivais de cinema em todo o mundo (Punto de Vista, Cinéma du Réel, Dokufest, D'A, Unicorn Awards, Goya Awards). Foram também exibidos em centros culturais como o Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Museu de Arte Moderna de Viena, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Moscovo, Museu Hermitage em São Petersburgo, entre outros.
His work is situated on the periphery of non-fiction with a strong essayistic inclination. His films have received numerous awards at film festivals around the world (Punto de Vista, Cinéma du Réel, Dokufest, D'A, Unicorn Awards, Goya Awards). His films were also screened in cultural centres such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, among others.
SELECTED PROJETS
MYSTICISME DU SUD
Fábio Penela
Production: Fábio Penela, Portugal
Thousands of years ago there were strong earthquakes that sometimes marked the end of an Era and the beginning of another. It is believed that these tremors were caused by inexplicable hidden forces. One day, in Tunisia, a lake appears mysteriously in the desert. The biggest dunes of the Sahara sing melodies at night. A golden man observes everything. The Earth is shaking again.
HANDS - POWER, GESTURE AND TOUCH
Rita Figueiredo
Production: Rita Figueiredo, Portugal
Several studies point to the first language of humans being gestural. One of the first artistic gestures is the painting of a hand, inseparable from the magic rite. In cinema, too, hands and magic have a special relevance: one of the first images filmed are the hands of a magician. The power of the hands is part of all cultures: the healing hand as a mirror of the body, the gesture as an expression of the universe, the touch, so critical, whose absence can lead to death.
STRANA
Diana Mizrahi Cengarle
Production: OMEN SCP, Espanha
Family legend has it that my great-grandmother, Lucia Antonutti, before emigrating to Argentina, tried to assassinate Mussolini. My trip to Friuli, Italy to understand what happened becomes an X-ray of a porous identity, marked by migrations and struggle.
TRACES OF THE TRABANT
Orisel Castro López
Production: Cactus & Hedgehog (Cuba, Germany)
Reyna experienced the last years of the late German Democratic Republic (GDR) working there in a car-factory. After the wall was torn down, she returned to Cuba conserving old and happy memories in her photo album. 33 years later she goes back in time with projected archival material from the old factory and letters of her best friends and colleagues from Germany. An experimental reflection on a radical system change, the decline of the working class and a foreign look at the unification of two countries.
