The Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival takes place from the 9th to the 18th of November in various areas of the capital and municipality of Cascais.
The program of LEFFEST'12 strong bets in a wide variety cinematic, as indeed has been the hallmark of its previous editions. The highlight will once again be the internationally renowned guest among which are Willem Dafoe and Paul Giamatti, as well as the honored personalities whose filmography is passed in full, as is the case of João Pedro Rodrigues that explores the fetishist universe, so such that it is capable of exploring the traditional road to home panorama Portuguese films, placing it among the greats of world cinema. Without forgetting João Rui Guerra da Mata, co-director and co-writer on many of his films. The names that deserved a retrospective of his work this year are filmmaker and producer Monte Hellman and Lucrecia Martel. Another of the highlights of this event are the cinematic exhibition, "'Noronha da Costa - The Representation of Images" is one of the most productive artists of Portuguese contemporary art, as well as the show entitled "David Hockney and Alberto Lacerda" where you can enjoy some correspondence, articles and some papers exchanged between the two and even photos, "Ithaca" by Portuguese photographer Isabel Zuzarte. A note also for the presentation of the book "between heaven and earth" of Rui Chafes, a Portuguese sculptor who began his artistic journey with installations in less noble materials. The Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival wants to give the viewer the possibility to intervene in the action, confronting ideas, understand, participate and be surprised, through conferences, master classes, workshops, performances, debates and performances. The selection of films in competition this year, want to project key authors in the history of cinema and emerging young filmmakers.
