During this year's edition of the festival, which will take place between 17 and 25 November, the festival will include several screenings dedicated to schools. Organised according to the interests and stimuli suitable for different age groups (M/4, M/6, M/9, M/12), they will take place at Batalha Cinema Centre. Throughout the week, the results of the 'Short Words' and 'Correspondences' workshops, which took place at EB da Ponte (Santo Tirso) and EB de Perafita (Matosinhos) between 2022 and 2023, will also be presented.
In conjunction with other sections of the festival, School Trip schools also includes the workshop Ao Ritmo do São João: based on the fresco by Júlio Pomar, which depicts a St John's night and can be seen at Batalha Cinema Centre. School Trip also invited, in partnership with Casa da Imagem, a group of 12th grade art students from Soares dos Reis Art School to develop a mural inspired by Pomar's St John's night and the graffiti of Hip Hop culture. The workshop runs from September to November and the result will be presented on Sunday during the Hip Hop Festival.
With a focus on high schools, Porto/Post/Doc will also be running an Experimental Cinema Workshop between 21 and 23 November, which aims to explore film as a tool of expression in which this technical/technological dimension persists. The workshop will be taught by Ángel Rueda and Ana Dominguez, founders and directors of (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de Coruña (Spain).
In addition to the activities taking place on the days of the festival, the education project extends throughout the year with creative workshops aimed at children and young people, from preschool to highschool, and implemented in various schools in the north of the country. Throughout 2023, work was carried out at Escola Artística Soares dos Reis (Porto), Escola Básica da Ponte (Santo Tirso), AE de Perafita (Matosinhos) and Escola Secundária da Boa Nova (Matosinhos).
For information on the schools programme and registration contact: melanie@portopostdoc.com
SCHOOL TRIP PROGRAM FOR AND WITH SCHOOLS
SCREENINGS FOR OVER 4 YEARS OLD
MON, 20 NOV, 10H30, BATALHA CINEMA CENTRE
The Spider & Ella
The fairy Ella and her eight-legged friend Spin weave the most extravagant webs, but only when they work together. When they try to decide what to do next, an argument breaks out between this creative duo. What a tangled mess!
Between Two Sisters
Between two sisters there is complicity and laughter. Between two sisters, love is the driving force. Between these two sisters there's a little more, and that's great.
The Turnip
Based on a Slovak tale and always told from the point of view of peasants, the film takes an unusual angle by showing what happened on the land while the peasants were cultivating it.
A Lynx in the City
A curious lynx gets bored in the forest and decides to move to the city. At night, he has fun and finds lots of interesting things, but in the morning...
SCREENING FOR OVER 6 YEARS OLD
TUES, 21 NOV, 10H30, BATALHA CINEMA CENTRE
The Seagull
In a seaside sanatorium, an old man's life is turned upside down by the arrival of a seagull that he gradually tames. The day the seagull gets hurt, the man takes care of it and, for a moment, recovers his childhood spirit.
Wild Mates
An idealistic goat decides to build a hut in the middle of the jungle. As the work progresses, she finds herself sharing the place with dangerous roommates that a sensible goat should never have to deal with.
Pig
A group of animals connect an electricity grid to the socket-shaped snout of a large sleeping pig. At first, the animals use the pig's energy for simple things, but soon they become dependent on a city where everything - useful and useless - is automated...
SCREENINGS FOR OVER 9 YEARS OLD
WED, 22 NOV, 10H30, BATALHA CINEMA CENTRE
ALFABatalha
A kaleidoscope film for learning to organise our gaze and listen to the world around us, made as part of the workshop Oficina de Realização Pára, escuta e olha! (Stop, listen and look!), which took place in Porto from 20 to 30 December 2022 at Batalha Centro de Cinema, under the guidance of Amarante Abramovici, Lucas Tavares, Ana dos Santos and Regina Guimarães.
Code Pink
In the middle of the ocean, a pink flamingo lands on an aircraft carrier. In order for the aeroplanes to take off, the soldiers have to chase it away. But the flamingo and his companions return tirelessly to put the pink back in this grey war machine.
Off the Runway
The region's two best rescuers set off on yet another mission. But not everything goes according to plan.
Xiaohui and His Cows
Far from his parents, Xiaohui lives with his grandfather in the mountains. When a calf is to be sold, the nine-year-old does everything in his power to prevent his mother and son from being separated.
SCREENINGS FOR OVER 12 YEARS OLD
THURS, 23 NOV, 10H30, BATALHA CINEMA CENTRE
Here. Now.
A teenage substitute goalkeeper reflects on the moment when he is about to replace an injured colleague and take the penalty kick. Before the fleeting moment of glory escapes him, he wanders among other pieces of memory, looking for a place and a reason to be here and now.
Of Dreams in the Dream of Another Mirror
The world is alive, but perhaps without mirrors and images none of it would exist. The blind create images in a different way - with sounds, textures and experiences. They're on the other side of the mirror. When you go down the rabbit hole, imagination plays the main role.
Magma
Esra is nine years old and, as such, wants stability. But nothing seems normal. She's moved to a new house, a new school and her father, suddenly disabled, is not who he used to be. The difficulty of dealing with all the changes is suffocating and the only solution is to erupt.
CREATURES OF LIGHT: EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA WORKSHOP (High Schools)
THURSDAY 21 NOV to THURSDAY 23 NOV
Schools in Porto and Greater Porto
Cinema seems to have been invented to understand the world: a mechanism that analyses the appearance of reality and at the same time transforms it. This workshop aims to explore film as a tool of expression in which this technical/technological dimension persists. It is based on promoting contact with the primordial device of cinema: the film, cinematographic experimentation and its experience in the theatre. The workshop is taught by Ángel Rueda and Ana Dominguez, founders and directors of (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico de Coruña (Spain).
WORKSHOP TO THE RHYTHM OF SÃO JOÃO
SUNDAY, 19 NOV, 4.00-6.30 PM, CAFÉ BATALHA
Based on Júlio Pomar's fresco depicting a St John's night, which can be seen at Batalha Cinema Centre, School Trip, in partnership with Casa da Imagem, invited a group of 12th grade drawing students from Soares dos Reis Art School to develop a mural inspired by Pomar's St John's night and the graffiti of Hip Hop culture. The workshop runs from September to November and the result will be presented on Sunday during the Hip Hop Festival.
