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Competition / Portugal


53 articles available in total starting from 05/09/2002. Last article published on 13/08/2025.

Sharunas Bartas • Director of In the Dusk

Interview: Sharunas Bartas • Director of In the Dusk

“This partisan movement is a very important story for the memory of our nation”

Cineuropa met up with Sharunas Bartas at San Sebastián to talk about In the Dusk, Soviet history, family, resistance and why having the correct breed of sheep is necessary for period authenticity  

23/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Review: Patrick

Review: Patrick

As evocative as it is obtuse, the debut film from Gonçalo Waddington aims to give voice to the unspeakable in this story of a child abductee who, years later, finally finds his way home  

27/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Gonçalo Waddington  • Director of Patrick

Interview: Gonçalo Waddington • Director of Patrick

“What is absent is usually present because of that very absence”

We met up with Portuguese actor-turned-director Gonçalo Waddington, who is competing for San Sebastián’s Golden Shell with his first feature, Patrick  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Tiago Guedes  • Director of The Domain

Interview: Tiago Guedes • Director of The Domain

The Domain is the story of a man who tries to keep his legacy intact”

VENICE 2019: Cineuropa braved the rain to meet with Portuguese filmmaker Tiago Guedes, who is presenting his new movie, The Domain, at Venice and soon at Toronto  

07/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

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

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