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Competition / Portugal


49 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 25/09/2024.

Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

Interview: Laura Carreira • Director of On Falling

“It felt important to show that even free time isn’t really free”

The Portuguese director explains how she puts us in the headspace of a warehouse picker in her remarkable debut feature  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Albert Serra  • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

Interview: Albert Serra • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

“I work with images like poets work with words”

The Catalonian filmmaker breaks down his way of understanding cinema and the creative process underpinning his new film, a bullfighting documentary portraying a matador and his entourage  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra presents a daring and truly extraordinary film about the world of bullfighting, painting the portrait of a matador and his entourage  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: On Falling

Review: On Falling

Laura Carreira’s feature debut is a pessimistic look at modern labour, following a migrant worker in her job as a warehouse picker  

11/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Review: Fire of Wind

Review: Fire of Wind

The first feature by Marta Mateus, a wonderful form of cinematic reminiscence, shines bright in the race for the Golden Leopard  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Banzo

Review: Banzo

In Margarida Cardoso’s feature, a mysterious illness is befalling the workers on a remote African island  

05/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Margarida Cardoso  • Director of Banzo

Interview: Margarida Cardoso • Director of Banzo

“One of the challenges of the film is that it takes place from the point of view of those in power”

In her new feature, the Portuguese director focuses on a little-discussed historical happening: the death of expatriated African workers owing to their longing for their homeland  

04/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Miguel Gomes • Director of Grand Tour

Interview: Miguel Gomes • Director of Grand Tour

"My film is almost like a joke, about men being so cowardly and women being so determined"

CANNES 2024: The Portuguese filmmaker talks about his new film, a travelogue drama about colonialism, social divides and love  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Review: Grand Tour

Review: Grand Tour

CANNES 2024: Miguel Gomes’ latest effort is a playful, fascinating cinematic experience telling the story of a man who flees his betrothed  

23/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Bruno Dumont • Director of The Empire

Interview: Bruno Dumont • Director of The Empire

"It’s not by telling others how to behave that you educate them, people need to be enlightened"

BERLINALE 2024: The French filmmaker revisits the sci-fi genre in his own unique style, exploring the inevitable porosity of Good and Evil  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

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