In 2018, Portuguese production company Terratreme Filmes celebrates ten years of activity, a period during which a group of filmmakers and producers struggled to impose their auteur-driven vision both locally and at international festivals – and they have certainly succeeded. The anniversary year kicks off with two pieces of good news: the opening of an exhibition of the company’s best film posters of the last decade in Lisbon, and the selection of five of their most recent productions at the imminent International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR, 24 January–4 February).

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The IFFR’s Hivos Tiger Competition is screening Djon África [+leggi anche:
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The script of Djon África was written by director Miller Guerra along with Pedro Pinho, one of Terratreme’s founders, who is also presenting his critically acclaimed feature The Nothing Factory [+leggi anche:
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Also selected for the Bright Future section is Susana Nobre’s new film Ordinary Time [+leggi anche:
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Terratreme’s line-up at Rotterdam is rounded off by Valérie Massadian’s French-Portuguese title Milla [+leggi anche:
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As for the remainder of the Portuguese contingent at the Dutch gathering, the list includes João Canijo’s all-female pilgrimage film Fátima [+leggi anche:
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