İndieLisboa Days Portuguese Cinema on Tour

Screening Schedule, Program Broshure

Portuguese cinema rarely makes it onto Turkish screens, and yet Portugal has produced some of the most eclectic and innovative films of the past decade. Some of the very best Portuguese films of recent years– have been selected for the Pera Museum by the directors of the annual film festival IndieLisboa, which, since its inception in 2004, has become firmly established as the leading national showcase for the finest independent talents emerging in Portugal and elsewhere. Foremost among them is Sandro Aguilar, represented here by his magnificent debut feature A Zona/Arise. The program includes three feature-length documentaries - Manuel Mozos’ exquisite essay film Ruins, Gonçalo Tocha’s roadmovie/film diary Balaou and Edgar Pêra’s Perpetual Movements, a tribute to the celebrated Portuguese guitar player Carlos Paredes – as well as a selection of Portuguese short films composed by award winning titles presented in the last edition of the festival. This program provides a welcome and opportunity to catch up with some of the most inspired, idiosyncratic film directors working in Portugal today.

This collaboration is made possible with the support of Instituto Camões and İndieLisboa.

BALAOU Documentary Portugal, 2007, 77’, Beta SP Director: Gonçalo Tocha Cast: Florence Beaufrère, Hubert Gidon, Yum, Maria do Rosário Gouveia Filipe, Maria
It’s now seven months over my mother’s death. I am facing the S. Miguel island sea, the family land in the Azores. Between the newborn babies, I found my Grandaunt, 91 years old, waiting for her moment to part. At night my family speaks to me of God and death. During the day we swim in the island’s volcanic sea, where I find Florence and Beru, a French couple that is crossing the Atlantic in the Balaou, a sailing boat. They invite me to come with them. Divided in three moments and eight lessons, “Balaou” is a voyage to accept the oblivion of things.