WEDNESDAY NIGHT FEVER sessions are back!

In this new period of social isolation, we want to continue to inspire you with the visions of our female filmmakers. This way, in partnership with Maus Hábitos, Saco Azul and Avenida Café-Concerto, these streaming movie nights will take place again until we can return to our favorite theaters.

For these “Wednesday nights' fever”, we share with you some of the Official Selection of the 3rd edition of Porto Femme.

A “Wednesday night fever” that gives us an impulse to create bridges and to meet virtually so we can share some films with you. We fight against this virus by creating a cinematic epidemic with the mission of making some female filmmakers known.

This session, dedicated to National Cinema and our Portuguese directors, is already the 7th and third of this 2.0 season, that will take place on March 31st at 9 pm (Portugal time) on the Facebook pages of @portofemme, @saco.azul.associacao.cultural, @mhabitos and @avenidacc. 

The world needs great actions and measures. We keep isolating but also assuring our purpose in small gestures and actions.

Program

ALICE BY NIGHT

Best Short Film Award – National Competition

Portugal | 12’10’’ | 2018 

Director: Matilde Calado

Cast: Mia Tomé, Rodrigo Perdigão, Filipe Abreu, Ricardo Barbosa

Producer: Matilde Calado, António Simão

Synopsis 

Even before we know ourselves, when we are little, the only thing we want is to be loved. Alice By Night is an observational fiction. It shows us the common state we are when in love and the determination when being after someone. An analysis on the old illusion that the prince charming will come and fill the emotional weaknesses we have in life.

ALVORADA | DAWN

Portugal | 11’38’’ | 2020 

Director: Carolina Neves

Cast: Afonso Alves, João Cravo Cardoso, Carlos Gomes

Producer: Kyle Sousa

Synopsis 

Vasco is exposed to his brother's extremist ideals, expressed through the National Socialist Black Metal genre. However, Vasco does not identify with the nature of the movement and hides from his brother an essential aspect of his life, in order to avoid a fraternal break, while tracing the path of self-acceptance.

YOUR ARMS ARE MY WAVES

Portugal | 11’00’’ | 2019 

Director: Débora Gonçalves

Cast: Ana Brandão, Manuel Wiborg

Producer: Ana Pedrosa, Jéssica Almeida, Débora Gonçalves

Synopsis 

A couple, woman and man, united by love, years and fights, to whom fragility and economic difficulty happens. Having nothing else to give or do, they give themselves to each other, for each other.

CELLFIE

Portugal | 3’10’’ | 2019 

Director: Débora Mendes

Producer: Débora Mendes

Synopsis 

When a scientist looks through the lens of her microscope at the abyss, the abyss looks back at her.

FEELING MYSELF

Portugal | 5’57’’ | 2018 

Director: Débora Rodrigues, Joana Flauzino, Vanessa Santos

Producer: Débora Rodrigues, Joana Flauzino, Vanessa Santos

Synopsis 

On a balcony, a man smokes restlessly. When he heads back inside an unknown woman provokes him, taking him on an introspective journey. Despite the insecurity, the man lets himself be carried away by this woman towards his true self.

PAINLESS LABOUR

Best Documentary Award – National Competition

Portugal | 21’00’’ | 2020 

Director: Maria Mire

Voice over: Marta Rego

Producer: Plataforma M

Synopsis 

Through archives and memory exercises, the story of the obstetrician Cesina Bermudes is told. A conversation that starts by the window and extends through an imagined intimacy: “I was sweeping the ground floor of a house that we occupied in Lisbon. I heard someone knocking on the window. Then I saw you. At the time you’d be about 80 years old. You had very curled hair and you were all dressed in white, leaning on a cane… do you remember?”