From July 14th to 22nd, the international film festival will once again occupy the northern coastal city with a diversified program, intersecting cinema, music and visual arts. Films, exhibitions, debates, concerts, master classes, workshops, video and library. In July, Vila do Conde will be again a meeting point for several agents of the film industry, programmers, journalists, filmmakers, and, of course, a wide audience.
As usual, the festival presents an audacious program that aims to defy not only geographic boundaries, with films coming from Pakistan to Romania, United States or Iran, but also disciplinary boundaries, promoting an intersection between cinema and the other artistic practices. From July 14th to 22nd, the place where cinema doesn't hide, it's in the north, it's Vila do Conde.
Opening Session
The 26th edition of Curtas Vila do Conde opens on July 14th, at 6:00 p.m., with the national premiere of the latest film by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schimdt, Diamantino. Awarded in the last edition of Cannes Festival, the film tells the tragi-comic history of a football player by the end of his carreer.
The Incredibles 2 opens Curtinhas
Curtinhas, the festival's section dedicated to children, opens with The Incredibles 2: Os Super-Heróis on Saturday, July 14th, 3:00 p.m., at Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde. This mini-festival within the festival will also have a short-film competition, several workshops and the Espaço Infantil Brincar ao Cinema, a place where parents can drop their kids while they attend the film sessions.
Stereo: music and cinema
The section Stereo, where music meets cinema, will held concerts by Black Bombaim and João Pais Filipe (14 JUL), Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes (18 JUL), Moor Mother and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (19 JUL), B Fachada (20 JUL) and Linda Martini (21 JUL). Tickets are at sale at Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde and online.
In Focus: Nadav Lapid
Nadav Lapid is the director In Focus at the 26th edition of Curtas Vila do Conde. The director will be at Vila do Conde to present his films. In 2016, Nadav Lapid won the principal award of the festival with From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer
Competitions
The several competitions - Portuguese, International, Experimental, Curtinhas, Music Videos and Take One!, will be, once again, the core of the festival, introducing the best of the contemporary cinema in all its splendor and diversity.
From Shorts to Features
This section presents four awaited films: Le Monde est à Toi, by Romain Gavras; Un Couteau Dans le Coeur, by Yann Gonzalez; The Green Fog, by Guy Maddin, E. Johnson and G. Johnson and also Diamantino, by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, that will open the festival.
Exhibition New Spain
Solar – Cinematic Art Gallery presents New Spain, a collective exhibition by the new generation of Spanish authors: Carla Andrade, Inés García, Laida Lertxundi, Lois Patiño, Natalia Marín e Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón. Opening: July 14th, 4pm.
Curtas Productions
The festival also presents a special session titled Curtas Productions that includes the films Rio Entre As Montanhas, by José Magro; Circo do Amor, by Miguel Clara Vasconcelos, e Náufragos, by Pedro Neves. All of them resulting from the work developed by Curtas Metragens CRL through the year.
Shorts for everyone!
Curtas presents Short-films for Everyone with several sessions for all audiences, with free entrance. From 16th to 20th of July, at 2:30 p.m., at the Auditório Municipal de Vila do Conde.
