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A presentation of the five projects selected for Arché Porto, a writing and artistic development laboratory for documentary-based film projects, organised by Porto/Post/Doc in partnership with Apordoc. The programme forms part of Arché, a space for development and creative thinking established in the context of Doclisboa.
Following a mentoring programme led by Tiago Hespanha, participants share their cinematic approaches and the questions explored during the laboratory with industry professionals and an international jury. The session introduces five Ibero-American projects at different stages of development and editing, opening a dialogue about their artistic and production paths.
Mentor
Tiago Hespanha
Presentation moderator
Charlie Phillips · Documentary Association of Europe — DAE
Charlie Phillips is a documentary producer, programmer and consultant, and Programme Director at DAE. Previously Head of Video at The Guardian and Deputy Director of Sheffield DocFest, he works with filmmakers worldwide on creative development and financing strategies. He is also Co-director of Folkestone Documentary Festival.
Projects presented
Delving into the Ruins (CADA / Hurgar en las Ruinas)
Felipe Ríos Fuentes
CHL · DOC · 90 min (expected film duration)
Stage: editing
Production: Catalina Vergara · Globo Rojo Films
During Chile’s dictatorship, the five members of the CADA collective turned poetry and art into instruments of resistance, releasing poems over the city and inscribing the call “NO+” in public space. Forty years later, Felipe Ríos Fuentes revisits their interventions and listens to the memories of those who sought to transform a country. Through testimonies, archive material and the filmmaker’s personal experience, the film asks what remains of that collective dream and how its traces run through Chilean history.
Daddy, I Have Had to Kill Me
Chloe Cazorla
ESP · FIC · 17 min (expected film duration)
Stage: development
Production: to be confirmed
After learning about the suicide of two girls from her neighbourhood, thirteen-year-old Cecilia joins an online forum. Fascinated by the world she discovers, she grows close to another user and becomes involved in a relationship that leads her into a spiral of self-destruction. Blending fiction with the filmmaker’s digital diaries and personal records, the film revisits Tumblr culture between 2014 and 2017, portraying a generation of teenagers for whom the internet was a place of belonging, loneliness and the romanticisation of suffering.
Guano and Guns
Locument — Romea Muryn and Francisco Lobo
CHL, PRT · DOC · 100 min (expected film duration)
Stage: development
Production: Luís Costa and André Guiomar · Locument and Olhar de Ulisses
On an island off the coast of Peru, a guard, an ornithologist and a worker share a territory with thousands of seabirds. During the guano extraction season, the film follows their routines and the rhythms of the ecosystem that sustains this resource. Attentive to labour, scientific research and knowledge of care passed down between generations, it seeks to build a counterpoint to the narratives of exploitation that have shaped the history of guano.
Rafael
João Paulo Miranda Maria
FRA, BRA · DOC · 90 min (expected film duration)
Stage: early development
Production: Nabil Bellahsene and Paula Cosenza · Les Valseurs Bordeaux and Trema
Rafael is twelve years old and autistic. His father, filmmaker João Paulo Miranda Maria, follows his gestures, silences and creative impulses, searching for a way to share an experience that words cannot always convey. By following his son’s rhythms and embracing his ways of transforming reality, the film creates a shared territory between them. An encounter between father and son that makes cinema a space of relationship and communication.
Subject: Unclaimed File
Alba Jaramillo
PRI · DOC · 75 min (expected film duration)
Stage: development
Production: Patricia Benabe · Rayuela Films
In the archives of Puerto Rico, three actors embody people described in police surveillance files that were never claimed. Guided by the addresses and testimonies contained in these records, they leave the archive and travel across the island in search of the lives from which they originated. Through encounters, gaps and contradictions, the film combines archive, performance and fiction to question the construction of identities by the state, and the persistence of political persecution and the colonial past in the present.
