In May, in a joint partnership between PORTO FEMME and OLHARES DO MEDITERRÊNEO, it will be screened a selection of films that were in competition at the last edition of this film festival, which takes place annually in Lisbon.

Created in 2014, the “Olhares do Mediterrâneo - Cinema no Feminino” film festival promotes the screening of films that result from the creative work of Mediterranean women, or women from elsewhere in the world working in the Mediterranean. The Festival intends to stimulate the knowledge of the cinematographies coming from this geographic zone and to promote the role of the woman in the cinematographic creation, giving visibility to its work and promoting the interchange with the professionals of the cinema in Portugal.

The Festival is a project of the Olhares do Mediterrâneo group and the CRIA (Center in Network of Research in Anthropology).


HOSTIA CON HACHE | Hit With H
Spain | 4’ | Ficção | 2017
Director: María Álvarez Laínz
Synopsis: A woman who has been subject of domestic violence goes to the police to denounce the abuse. She enters the Police station as a victim, but during the deposition she becomes much more than a battered woman.


MON HOMME (POULPE) | My Man (Octopus)
France | 9’ | Animação | 2016
Director: Stéphanie Cadoret
Synopsis: A young woman comes back home. She gets undressed, puts on her swimsuit, and sinks into the underwater depths of her apartment. Overcomed by a baroque aquatic flora, her home has become the ecosystem of her spouse: an octopus. Until the following morning, she complies with this hostile, wet and suffocating environment that is now her everyday life with her man (octopus).
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/198313347


NEGAH | Gaze
Italy and Iran | 15’ | Ficção | 2017
Director: Farnoosh Samadi
Synopsis: On her way back from work, a woman witnesses something wrong happening on the bus. The moral decision to publicly denounce the situation turns her remaining commuting into a tortuous and anxious escape that only the arrival at home can placate.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/225403620


SELFIE(SH)
Italy | 20’ | Ficção | 2016
Director: Ekaterina Volkova
Cast: Barbara Valmorin, Francesco Colella and Giovanna Vignola
Synopsis: Anna is 80 years old, she needs a good joint of marijuana, the medecine! The drug pusher has mysteriously disappeared and the only person who can help her is her son, Walter. Mother and son will spend all the night together as they haven’t ever done. What will they find? The drug pusher, the joint or something else?


TRESNJE | Cherries
Croatia | 30’ | Ficção | 2017
Director: Dubravka Turic
Cast: Roko Glavina, Lana Barić, Milivoj Beader, Nikša Butijer, Areta Ćurković, Franko Jakovčević e Donat Zekić
Producer: Dijana Mlađenović
Synopsis: Family tensions are slowly eroding what should have been a carefree summer for 10-year old Jakov. Shielded by the innocence of a child, Jakov does not understand the cause of the troubles, but can sense a profound injustice in the actions of the grown ups. A series of events ending in tragedy will incite his emotional revolt, but also his feelings of guilt.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/216381171