Visiting Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus presents her films Fire of Wind (2024) and Barbs, Wastelands (2017), along with two works by the ethnopoetic filmmakers Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis in which she found inspiration.
Read full descriptionSheltering in a grove of oak trees from an attacking bull, a group of agricultural workers share bread, wine, and stories of struggle and resistance.
Marta Mateus presents her debut film, Barbs, Wastelands, with João César Monteiro’s portrait of the poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and António Reis’s Jaime, a documentary of the artist Jaime Fernandes.
Set in Portugal’s remote northeast, Trás-os-Montes is a magical time-traveling tapestry within which daily realities, chores, and rituals are interwoven with the stories of the people who lived and labored there through the centuries.
The observations and conversations of a group of ethnographers visiting a remote village are interwoven with the experiences and dreams of its residents and children.