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MUDANÇA
Short film
Directed by Welket Bungué
27', stereo, col, Portugal, 2021
Kussa Productions
Synopsis It's essential to generate life, dialogue, understanding, and celebrate humanity. In times of widespread pandemic, raising questions about the preservation of democracy, the integrity of public health and our own notions of individuality, we are dragged into a process of change. 'Upheaval' is a meeting between the artist Welket Bungué, and the parliamentary politician Joacine Katar Moreira. Here, they question the essence of their crafts, making an unexpected paradigm of imminent revolution resound.
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PRIMA KU LEBSI
Short film
Directed by Welket Bungué
25', stereo, col, Portugal, 2024
Kussa Productions
Synopsis Prima and Lebsi is a sparkling queer delight set outside Lisbon, in which the titular characters, both descendants of the diaspora, encounter each other as well as the challenges of their own lives.
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A RAINHA
Short film
Directed by Lúcia Pires
17', stereo, col, Portugal, 2020
Videolotion
Synopsis Our lives are made by stories we want to believe in. We believe them because they seem real. Or are they real just because we want them to be? This is a movie about a real story. Or maybe not.
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UN FIGLIO DI NOME DE ERASMUS
Feature length film
Directed by Alberto Ferrari
107', stereo, col, Italy, Portugal, 2020
Vivi Films
Synopsis Four friends in their 40's are summoned to Lisbon for Amalia's funeral. She's left them an unexpected legacy: a child conceived with one of them during an Erasmus study program in Portugal 20 years ago. They embark on a daring and exciting journey in search of the mystery offspring while waiting for the DNA results to find out which one is the father.
Trivia First Italian film to have its international premiere via streaming platforms
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DAMNED SUMMER
Feature Length Film
Directed by Pedro Cabeleira
128', 5.1, col, Portugal, 2017
OPTEC FILMES & Videolotion
Synopsis The summer of Chico starts at home, with his grandparents, under the cover of the lemon trees. An outlet. The ground of his childhood memories. But now, he belongs to Lisbon, where he graduated and where he hopes to find a career. Chico is part of a generation without prospects and expectations, in which reaching adulthood seems to be perpetually delayed. The nights of Lisbon, intoxicated by its affections and heartbreaks, hold him into a psychedelic hedonism, where burning anguish fuels into euphoria.
Awards: Locarno '17 - Special Mention by the Jury
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