China and Portuguese-speaking Countries Film Festival

Over the past few years, Chinese and Portuguese films have been attracting worldwide attention. Not only have they earned increasing acclamation in different international film festivals, but have also edged themselves into the box office, winning the appreciation of ever larger audiences. Screening these remarkable Chinese and Portuguese films brings their unique visions to viewers of different cultures and various backgrounds. Under the impact of these two cultures, a series of films with profound historical meaning have been produced in Macao.

The Chinese and Portuguese Language Countries Film Festival 2018 is a cinematographic exchange between China and Portuguese speaking countries that will introduce Portuguese films to Macao audiences and Chinese films to the Portuguese community, along with a series of invaluable films and documentaries shot and produced in Macao. This festival consists of 24 films and documentaries screened in 3 sections: "Films in Chinese", "Films in Portuguese", "Image, Macao". These will be complemented by post-screening talks and sharing sessions. Emerging Chinese director Xin Yukun's latest feature film, Wrath of Silence (2017), was chosen as the festival's the opening film. Following are another 3 contemporary Chinese feature films, 9 films and shorts produced in Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and South Africa, and 9 films and documentaries produced in Macao from 1923 to 2015. Portuguese auteur Manoel de Oliveira's first feature, Aniki Bóbó (1942 and the first short documentary Duro, Faina Fluvial), will be the closing film. Our intention is to bring the latest cinematographic developments from China and Portuguese speaking countries, as well as to exhibit the distinctive history of film in Macao, to our viewers.

Venue
Macao Cultural Centre Small Auditorium (Opening Film)
Cinematheque‧Passion (Others)

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OPENING FILM

Wrath of Silence

03/07
Tue ｜20:00
China / 2017 / 119' / DCP
In Chinese with simplified Chinese and English subtitles
Dir: Xin Yukun
Cast: Song Yang, Jiang Wu, Yuan Wenkang

FIRST International Film Festival Xining – World Premiere
BFI London Film Festival – International Premiere
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
International Film Festival & Awards．Macao – Special Jury Prize and Best Actor

On a chilly winter's day in Northern China, a shepherd boy roams the mountains with his herd. He walks by a slope and gazes down into the shallow creek beneath him. Two days later, miner Zhang Baomin hurries back to his home － his son has disappeared in the mountains. Three days later, lawyer Xu Wenjie's daughter disappeared as well. He picks up the phone and calls the only possible suspect. Mountains and the wilderness: people lose themselves in this no man's land in search of their own.

 

CLOSING FILM: Work and Play on the Waterfront: Manoel de Oliveira's early films

Aniki-Bóbó （Restored Version)

13/07
Fri ｜19:30
Portugal / 1942 / 70' / 35mm / Preto e branco
In Portuguese with English and Chinese subtitles
Dir: Manoel de Oliveira
Cast： Horácio Silva, António Santos, Fernanda Matos, Nascimento Fernandes

Oliveira's first feature film, portrays a gang of kids from a poor neighbourhood in Porto. In a battle for the affections of young Terezinha, the gang's leader, Eduardinho, faces off with Carlitos. The story is about guilt and fear, about desires and criminal misdemeanours.

 

Faina Fluvial・Working on the Douro River （Restored Version)

13/07
Fri ｜19:30
Portugal / 1931 / 21' / DCP / Black and White
In Portuguese with English and Chinese subtitles
Dir: Manoel de Oliveira

Working on the Douro River reveals Oliveira's incredible vision and sense of rhythm, having won the acclamation of critics and artists. While it flourishes as a formalist experiment with its play on light, montage and oblique camera angles, Working on the Douro River also documents human toil and how traditional lines of work (fishing and herding) clash with modernity (airplanes and automobiles). The film's setpiece—a staged "accident" between a reversing car and a creaking oxcart—also sets the tone for de Oliveira's career-long penchant in mixing reality with fiction.

 

Talk
“TALK: On Lusophone Cinemas: Latest Trends in Portuguese—language filmaking” to be held at 7 Jul (Sat) from 2:30pm to 3:30pm, by guest curator Clarence Tsui. Conducted in Cantonese, with English simultaneous interpretation. Free admission, limited seats, first-come-first-served basis. Please email to cinematheque.passion@gmail.com before 2 Jul for prior registration.

 

Ticketing
Ticketing will start from 9 June (Sat), 10 am at the ticket office of Cinematheque・Passion as well as our official website (www.cinematheque-passion.mo). Ticket price is MOP$60. Full-time students and senior citizens aged 65 or above can enjoy 50% discount. Each purchase of 10 regular tickets or more can enjoy 20% discount at the ticket office of Cinematheque・Passion.

Cinematheque・Passion is located at Travessa da Paixão Nº13. The ticket office is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 11:30pm. (Closed on Mondays. Also open on public holidays). For enquiries, please call at (853) 28522585.

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