İndieLisboa Days Portuguese Cinema on Tour

RUÍNAS

Documentary
Portugal, 2009, 60', Beta Digital
Director: Manuel Mozos

Fragments of spaces and times, remains of eras and places only inhabited by memories and ghosts. Traces of things changed by time, the elements, nature and human action itself. With time, everything ceases being and possibly transforms into everything else. Places that stopped making sense, stopped being necessary and fashionable. Forgotten places, obsolete, uninhabitable, empty.

VISIONARY IRAQ

Fiction
Portekiz, 2009, 20', Beta Digital
Director: Benjamin Crotty, Gabriel Abrantes
Cast: Benjamin Crotty, Gabriel Abrantes

A young Portuguese boy and his adopted Angolan sister are departing from Lisbon for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their mother realizes they are having a secret love affair. Their father is revealed to be profiting from infrastructure development investments. They have a moral decision to made while on the field of battle.

BIRDS

Animation
Portugal, 2009, 6', HD
Director: Filipe Abranches

The misadventure of an old woman obsessed with birds and her son, who thinks that can fly.

A RED BLOOD ROBE

Fiction
Portugal, 2009, 15’, 35mm
Director: Pedro Caldas

A man and a woman in one room, ...the sounds that arrive from outside, ...the gestures, ...the words, ...the things shared, ...the moods of the woman and the man, …are the nomadic edge of the nature of that relation.