13 years already and the hope that this anniversary brings good luck. The Lusophone space is settling in Nice, Cannes, and Grasse with a selection of films that sometimes reflect on the past to better think about the present and the challenges that cross it. This festival will also have a local dimension with a documentary shot in Vallauris about the Cape Verdean community.
Music remains a guiding thread with various concerts and initiatives planned at the Louis Nucera Library, the La Providence cultural center in old Nice, and at the Harmonia Mundi record shop in Nice, as well as at the MJC Picaud in Cannes.
The latest film by one of the most talented young Portuguese directors, Mario BARROSO, based on an adaptation of a great 19th-century Portuguese classic, already brought to screens by Manoel de OLIVEIRA, will be shown at the Faculty of Letters.
Also, the premiere of the latest opus from the cinema myth that is Manoel de OLIVEIRA with “The Strange Case of Angelica.”
EVENTS (Free entry)
Saturday, March 19
MUSEAAV 16 bis Place Garibaldi – Nice
5:00 PM – Launch of the 13th Week of Lusophone Cinema
Cocktail, concerts with Vitô Rodrigues in particular, animations…
Tuesday, March 22
Faculty of Letters 98, bd. Edouard Herriot – Nice Amphitheater n°61
5:00 PM – Screening of the film “Um Amor de Perdição,” by Mário BARROSO
Wednesday, March 23
MCJ Picaud – Cannes
7:30 PM – Opening cocktail with a Cape Verdean Batuque ensemble
Friday, March 25
Auditorium of the Louis NUCERA Library 2, place Yves Klein – Nice
5:00 PM – Cape Verdean music concert with Carl LOPES,
Marcus CECCONI guitar,
François LAPEYSONNIE bass,
Thomas GALLIANO drums
Saturday, March 26
La Providence Cultural Center 18, rue Saint-Augustin – Old Nice
4:00 PM – Music concerts, documentary screenings on Lusophone Africa (Cape Verde/Angola)
Monday, March 28
Harmonia Mundi record shop 33, rue Hôtel des Postes – Nice
6:00 PM – Brazilian music concert with Carl LOPES, Marcus CECCONI guitar
FILMS (OV/ST)
ESTÔMAGO
By Marcos JORGE
Brazil – comedy/drama – 2007 – 1h53
With João MIGUEL, Fabiula NASCIMENTO, Babu
SANTANA, Carlo BRIANI
A biting social comedy where culinary art and the taste for power are deliciously intertwined. Estômago turns the kitchen into a spiced social and sexual allegory. The film, in the tradition of culinary art in cinema, is savored until the last scene, a true cherry on the cake.
RÊVES VOLÉS (Sonhos Roubados)
By Sandra WERNEK
Brazil – drama – 2010 – 1h30
With Nanda COSTA, Amanda DINIZ, Kika FARIAS, Marieta SEVERO
Europa Filmes
Leveraging her documentary skills, Sandra Werneck offers a sensitive and poetic look at life in the favelas and more precisely on the daily lives of three teenagers navigating the alleys of Rio’s poorer neighborhoods, between family and financial concerns.
L’ÉTRANGE AFFAIRE D’ANGELICA
(O estranho caso de Angélica)
By Manoel de OLIVEIRA
Portugal – drama – 2010 – 1h34
With Luís Miguel CINTRA, Pilar Lopes de AYALA, Ana Maria
MAGALHÃES, Isabel RUTH, Leonor SILVEIRA, Ricardo TRÊPA
Epicentre Films
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2010
Isaac is called to make a portrait of Angélica, a young girl from a wealthy family who has just died shortly after her marriage. This film intertwines tragedy and fantasy, brutality and absurdity. It features one of the omnipresent themes in Manoel de Oliveira’s cinema: frustrated loves, destructive attractions.
GILBERTO GIL, THE POWER OF MUSIC
By Dominique DREYFUS
France – documentary – 2010 – 43’
Arte F – Zaradoc Films
This docu-reportage by Dominique Dreyfus takes the viewer along one of Gilberto Gil’s European tours. The musician lets the camera dive into his personal and civic universe: on one hand, the role of music in his life, his family universe, and on the other, his involvement in the essential causes of his country and the planet.
LE MIRACLE DE CANDEAL
By Fernando TRUEBA
Spain – musical documentary – 2004 – 02h06
With Carlinhos BROWN, Gilberto GIL, Bebo VALDES
Bebo Valdés, a famous Cuban pianist, arrives in Bahia to reconnect with his African roots. He will have a series of encounters with the Candeal favela community, of which Carlinhos Brown – a famous Brazilian percussionist – is the charismatic leader. An example of a breeding ground for musicians, the favela also illustrates social integration.
48
By Susana de SOUSA DIAS
Portugal – documentary – 2009 – 58’
Production: Ansgar Schäfer
Award-winning film at the Beaubourg Festival in Paris.
Following “Faces of a Dictatorship,” distinguished with numerous awards, Susana de Sousa Dias continues her work of memory and confrontation of a dark past of 48 years of fascism in Portugal, using an innovative cinematographic process. Using a set of identification photos of political prisoners and interviews with them, she creates a portrait of those years of darkness, their cruel human reality, and their projection into the present.
MARGEM ATLÂNTICA
By Ariel de BIGAULT
Portugal/France – documentary – 2006 – 58’
FMC/Filmoblic/Real Ficção
In Lisbon, an Atlantic port at the edge of Europe, once the capital of an Empire spanning five continents, authors, actors, and musicians cast their imaginations beyond the seas. On this Atlantic shore, their intimate, concrete, and poetic relationship with Africa nourishes their aesthetic and structures their attitudes. These multiple facets sketch the contours of an open Lusophone singularity on the world.
UN AMOR DE PERDIÇÃO
By Mário BARROSO
Portugal – drama – 2008 – 1h21
With Tomás ALVES, Patrícia FRANCO, Willion BRANDÃO,
Catarina WALLENSTEIN
Atalanta films
Simão, a troubled teenager from a wealthy Portuguese family, falls in love with Teresa, a mysterious young woman considered mad by those around her. Young Simão changes, and this passion becomes obsessive. However, professional conflicts between his father and Teresa’s father condemn this relationship.
LE DIABLE À QUATRE
By Alice de ANDRADE
Brazil – comedy – 2006 – 1h48
With Netinho ALVES, Zezeh BARBOSA, Maria FLOR,
Chris COUTO, Marcelo FARIA
Cinéma Public Films
Rita, a young au pair, takes an interest in her neighbor across the street, Paulo. He is a young bohemian who frequents the world of prostitution. Rita, both jealous and fascinated by this world so different from hers, decides to enter it. Alice Andrade offers us a social comedy denouncing the chaotic world of Brazil.
From March 23 to 29 in Nice (Mercury cinema), Cannes (MJC Picaud) and Grasse
