The Municipal Market shows cinema, inserted in the Festival MED, between days 25th and 26th of June.
One of the main symbols of the city of Loulé, the Municipal Market, this year receives the Cinema Cycle MED which, in the days leading up to the Festival, takes the seventh art from the various corners of the world to this emblematic building which is also a commercial space day to day. The partnership of the Loulé Film Office with the prestigious IndieLisboa, the International Independent Festival of Lisbon is one of the novelties of this cycle. Through this cooperation, Cinema MED will present films that have already passed through IndieLisboa, an event that is already a reference in the film industry.
At the start of the program, Monday, 25th, at 9:00 p.m., six award-winning short films will be presented like Solar Walk by Réka Bucsi's, a journey between the individual microcosm and the whole of the galaxy.
Rabbit's Blood, by Sarina Nihei, a narcotized version of Alice in Wonderland with secret societies, flying daggers and futurology.
Matria, that won the Macau Tourism Award for Best Fiction, by Álvaro Gago, the portrait of an unstoppable woman, Ramona, who among all the difficulties manages to find time for her granddaughter.
Waste N0.5 The Raft of the Medusa, that won an Amnesty International Award, in which the director starts from the famous subtitle frame to reflect on the boats of the refugees that are exposed in museum space.
Tremors won a Schools Prize by Dawid Bodzak, an atmospheric tale depicting a Polish adolescence on skates, in particular a boy afflicted by tremors, where fact and representation are confused,
Stay Ups, by Joanna Rytel, a reflection on the difficulty of being a single parent with a healthy sex life: the middle-aged director has a night visitor, but before he arrives you have to teach your child to be very well hidden behind the sofa.
On Tuesday, the 26th, the film Baronesa by Juliana Antunes, the winning film of the Grand Prize and Special Prize of the Jury of the International Competition, is presented. This documentary offers a rare look at the favela from the feminine point of view. A film of women, about women living in neighborhoods with a woman's name, Leidiane and Andreia live in "Juliana" but the last one wants to move to the "Baroness". According to the director, "It is the woman looking at the woman without the paints of the delicacy, the sentimental and all that sweetened frame of such traditional femininity." Juliana Antunes debut this work was awarded in several festivals and considered the best first work of 2017 by a group of 135 programmers, critics and filmmakers from around the world.
Admission is free.
All information on www.festivalmed.pt
