It's an exhibition of films that take place between 6.7 and 8 December, in the Sun cinema in partnership with Inn of Ponta do Sol.
Explain a little bit the concepts behind the MMIFF'12
Nuno Barcelos: The objective is to interconnect a former art deco cinema, a hotel design and the landscapes of Madeira. The environment we want to create is a bit eerie and dramatic; we want to be an independent festival.
Will show only short films?
NB: No, the MMIFF '12 will show only 6 films in 3 days, is micro precisely for this reason, because the festival has on averaged about 20, 60, 120 films that will be presented over several days.
The films follow a particular theme or not?
NB: This was one of the issues that we put in the table when we decided to organize this event film; basically this is the year zero. We had a kind of "brainstorming" about the content of films and somehow reached the conclusion that we wanted a marginal festival, indie. The theme is independent cinema and brush a little into the surreal and fantastic, without being confused with renowned festivals, such as the Fantasporto. Our hallmarks are the dramatic landscapes of the island, somehow ghostly, we also intend to sell the destination Madeira and promote a space that is a movie with almost 100 years. The Sol Cinema is somewhat decadent, the idea is to keep it such as it is, with its cobwebs, with peeling walls by the time we will include decorative elements of the time, all these vectors together will differentiate us because the aim is to present a current and contemporary festival that could happen in a big cities, but that eventually take place in a picturesque village, an area that has elements of Kafka and Lynch and an exotic island.
And how was made the selection of movies?
NB: The selection of films was made by one of our partners in the organization of this event, the Digital Berlin, which is a European cultural marketing company, who suggested the idea of organizing this festival. We decided to embrace this project, because they boast a public, half the spectators were foreigners. The selection, however, followed logical, very recent European films, which have been seem very few times and address the fantastic.
Are any of the films Portuguese?
NB: Unfortunately we could not make it so this year, this is a year zero and for such we could not use the proper channels to promote the festival in our country, despite the inscriptions ended in October 31th films are chosen and the program will be presented at the end of this month, but we hope that next year we can show national films, because there are new blood that needs to be shown.
