Family Film Project International Festival from 15 to 20 October in Porto

Family Film Project International Festival - archive, Memory, Ethnography is back in Porto, from 15 to 20 October.

The Festival is held annually in Porto and since inception, in the year 2012, it has had notorious visibility and increased internationalisation.
The year 2018 marks the Festival's seventh edition, featuring film shows, master classes, performances and video-installations. 

The Festival's traditional emphasis is family landscapes and the intersection between intimacy and the ethnographic standpoint, whereas the main topics of this year's edition are "Lives and Places", dealing with voyeuristic, biographical or documentary record of locales and daily lives, "Memory and Archive", exploring documents and footage of things left behind, and Connections, regarding how people and society relate and experience relationships.

As usual, the programme presents a short film competitive selection of international short films of the fiction genre.
Film competition also includes feature film, from documentary to experimental, exploring social criticism and the sensorial dimension, regarding the "home-movie" subgenre as well as thematic and ethnographic landscapes. 

Daniel Blaufuks is the invited artist of this 7th edition. Blaufuks' work intertwines photography and literature, through projects like My Tangier with the writer Paul Bowles. More recently, his "Collected Short Stories" display several photographic diptychs in "snapshot prose" kind of speech.

Another highlight of this year's programme is the premiere in Porto of the feature film "Marias da Sé" by Filipe Martins. This film mixes documentary and fiction features, and the local community of the Cathedral of Porto stars in the film.

Also, American researchers Bill Nichols and Paula Rabinowitz will give a masterclass. Nichols is an undisputed name of contemporary cinema theory, whose work has helped establish film studies as an academic discipline. He will address audiences on the theme "In the Beginning". Rabinowitz, a sociologist and historian will focus on the role of film, photography and other media in the context of the twentieth century American modernisms, in the masterclass "Cold War Dads: Fathers and the National Security".

A set of video-installations will also be exhibited during the entire festival, designed for selected films.

We welcome you to visit the Festival's Programme and discover what will happen from 15 to 20 October in Porto. 

Tickets for movie sessions, which are free for students, cost 3 euros and can be purchased at Coliseu Porto Ageas Ticket Office. The general pass grants access to all the festival's activities and costs 8 euros.

The Family Film Project is organised by Balleteatro, from Coliseu Porto Ageas, it is funded by the Government of Portugal and DGArtes, jointly with Porto City Hall.