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Competition / Portugal


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

Review: The Domain

Review: The Domain

VENICE 2019: Tiago Guedes treads on overly familiar ground in his epic melodrama spanning almost 50 years, which even despite its lush cinematography feels rather old-fashioned  

06/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

Review: Vitalina Varela

Review: Vitalina Varela

Pedro Costa returns to Locarno with his latest film, a sombre and uncompromising ode to a world that seems to fascinate him to the point of obsession  

19/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

João Nicolau  • Director of Technoboss

Interview: João Nicolau • Director of Technoboss

“As a director, the use of music in film is one of the subjects that interests me the most”

Portuguese director João Nicolau talks to us about his latest film Technoboss screened in competition in Locarno  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Technoboss

Review: Technoboss

João Nicolau’s latest film stars first-timer Miguel Lobo Antunes, in a comic, refreshing study of ageing (and life)  

12/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Ira Sachs  • Director of Frankie

Interview: Ira Sachs • Director of Frankie

“I am interested in people being, not acting”

CANNES 2019: We met up with Ira Sachs, the director of Frankie, a French-Portuguese-Belgian-US co-production shown in the main competition  

23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Frankie

Review: Frankie

CANNES 2019: In what feels like one of the longest 98-minute-long films ever made, Ira Sachs talks about a terminal illness and, fittingly enough, leaves you comatose  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Our beloved Tabu

In the style of a colonial film from the 1960s shot in 16mm, the prologue of Tabu by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Our Beloved Month of August) tells of how a crocodile became inconsolable...  

15/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Portugal/Germany/Brasil/France

Pedro Costa in search of hypnotic perfection

An immersion into a purist and minimalist auteur cinema greeted audiences at yesterday evening’s press screening of the first-ever competition title Juventude em Marcha by Portugal’s Pedro Costa....  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | Portugal

Funding for first films

ICAM earmarks 898,000 Euros for first-time directors. The deadline for submissions is 11 October  

05/09/2002 | Competition | Portugal

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