Live Streaming Session

WEDNESDAY NIGHT FEVER sessions are back!

In this new period of social isolation, we want to continue to inspire you with the visions of our female filmmakers. This way, in partnership with Saco Azul, Maus Hábitos and Avenida Café-Concerto, these streaming movie nights will take place again until we can return to our favorite theaters.

For these “Wednesday nights' fever”, we share with you some of the award-winning films in the 3rd edition of Porto Femme.

A “Wednesday night fever” that gives us an impulse to create bridges and to meet virtually so we can share some films with you. We fight against this virus by creating a cinematic epidemic with the mission of making some female filmmakers known.

This is the 5th session, but the first of this 2.0 season, that will take place on January 27th at 9 pm (Portugal time) on the Facebook pages of @portofemme, @saco.azul.associacao.cultural, @mhabitos and @avenidacc. 

The world needs great actions and measures. We keep isolating but also assuring our purpose in small gestures and actions.

Program

SYNCHRONICITY

Students Competition – Best Animation

Portugal | 3’47’’ | 2018

Director: Michelle Brand

Producer: Michelle Brand

School: Royal College of Arts, UK

Synopsis 

People come, people go. Yet everyone is moving in the same direction. We all are sharing something that we are unaware of, creating one big picture we are unable to see. The film explores the idea of how everyone is connected in a way we may not realise. By sharing time, space and movement, we overlap and create a bigger picture. 

I SEE IN THE DARK

Students Competition – Documentary Special Mention

Slovenia | 16’24’’ | 2019

Director: Lana Bregar

Producer: Jožica Blatnik

School: Universidade de Ljubljana, SLO

Synopsis 

Confessions of people who have lost their sight during their lives. What are their feelings and how do they view their apparent handicap?

INSIDE ME

Festival Award for Best Student Film 

Germany | 5’14’’ | 2019 

Director: Maria Trigo Teixeira

School: Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, DE

Synopsis 

A clear decision surrounded by mixed feelings. A young woman recounts her experience with abortion.

REMINISCENCE

Women’s Struggles and Rights Award – Special Mention

Peru | 10’47’’ | 2018 | FIC

Director: César Zamudio de Souza

Cast: Sylvia Majo, Marina Kapoor, Alecita Saavedra

Producer: Laura Gil

Synopsis 

Juliana is an experienced taxi driver who is trapped in the memory of her childhood, until a difficult situation makes her reconsider her past decisions.

I AM FATOU

XX Element Competition – Award for Best Film

Italy | 18’12’’ | 20 | FIC

Director: Amir Ramadan

Cast: Fatou Sokhna, Nar Gada Gaye, Riccardo Petrozzi

Producer: Giulio Baraldi

Synopsis 

Fatou is a 23-year-old Italian girl of Senegalese origin. She lives in a suburb of Rome with her mother, who would like to educate her according to the rigid impositions of her culture of origin. But Fatou is looking for her own identity that combines her black Muslim origin with Italian society.

ALIEN

XX Element Competition – Special Mention

R. Korea | 15’00’’ | 2019 | FIC

Director: Jegwang Yeon 

Cast: Kyunghwa Lee, Bongsik Hyun

Producer: Jegwang Yeon

Synopsis 

Reonghee and I are illegal aliens. Yesterday, Reonghee died while running away from the Immigrant Office Agents. The company we worked for is only concerned about covering up the mess. I'm going to find Reonghee, who's body the company has hidden somewhere and give her the funeral that she deserves.

*Every last Wednesday of each month, the Maus Hábitos screens thematic cinema cycles in which the common denominator is films directed by women.

The aim is to give visibility to the work of women in the film industry, through the projection of their works and, whenever possible, their presence in the sessions, promoting the encounter between the public and the authors.