Four Portuguese films at German Film Film Festival in June
This will be the 37th edition of Kurzfilm Fest, from June 1 to 07, between Digital and Analog, with programming to display on the small screen, online, and designed in film room, taking into account constraints arising from the pandemic .
In the international competition are 42 films, including four Portuguese short films or national co-production.
They are “Luz de Presença”, by Diogo Coast Amarante, “Mudança”, Luso-Guinean Welket Bungué, and “Nanu Tudor”, from Moldava Olga Lucoveneva, all displayed this year at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as “Tracing Utopia”, from Catarina de Sousa and Nick Tyson.
“Nanu Tudor”, who won in February The Golden Bear in Berlin, is a documentary of biographical, Olga Lucovnicva, produced in the context of the European Master Docnomads program, which Portugal is part, through the Lusophone University.
“Luz de Presença”, which also had a debut in Berlin, reveals a new assembly and new creative process of Diogo Amarante Costa from the film “The Garden Green”, which presented in 2019 at the short village festival of Vila do Conde. Despite the changes, the central focus of history is the meeting between Diana, a transsexual, and a rugged motorcyclist, in an urban landscape of the city of Porto, where the director Diogo Amarante Costa has moved a few years ago.
“Mudança”, the first work of the actor Welket Bungué as a director, resulted from an invitation released by the Theater of the Alto Bairro in Lisbon, where the short film was rounded with the collaboration of Mrs Joacine Katar Moreira, which stars two monologues.
“Tracing Utopia”, from Portuguese Catarina de Sousa and North American Nick Tyson, arrives in Hamburg after having had a worldwide premiere at the beginning of this year at the Rotterdam festival in the Netherlands.
