Go to Porto/Post/Doc and then go to other festivals

If August and September films did, in fact, leave you disgruntled and dissatisfied, know that Porto/Post/Doc is less than two months away. The festival kicks off on 23 November and concludes on 1 December.

Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival is a festival cinema of reality in Porto. With a special focus on documentary film, this festival runs from 23rd November till 1st December, at Porto Municipal Theatre and at three other venues in the city of Porto, Rivoli, Cinema Passos Manuel and Porto Planetarium. 

The Porto/Post/Doc Festival brings the world in film with the usual International Competition and Competition Cinema Novo, featuring fiction that represents reality from Chile, Brazil, Spain, France, Germany and Japan.

The festival kicks off with the screening of the documentary "Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love", by Nick Broomfield, in the scope of the programme Transmission, devoted to music and pop culture. This documentary chronicles the enduring love story between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen, from the early days in Greece to the time Leonard became famous. The screening is scheduled for 23 November, at 9.30pm, at Rivoli.

Other highlights are the special documentaries directed by British Mike Christie and the national premiere of "Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-90", on the golden years of this famous German recording studio, and also "New Order: Decades" and "Suede: The Insatiable Ones", on the bands with the same name.

The festival presents a retrospective of the work by the Lithuanian director Audrius Stonys, as well, devoted to reflect upon identities.

The official competition presents big titles such as "Por Deus Me Libro", the 2011 comedy, directed by Martín Duplaquet and written by Juan José Hurtado.

The film was shot in Chile and in Brazil, where the new pastors trained how to speak, behave and act in front of cameras to attract crowds.

The writer believes that many so-called "Churches" are established with the sole purpose of making money, rather than saving souls.

Throughout the week, the festival presents "Haut Les Filles", by François Armanet, a documentary on female figures of French rock music, with special appearances by Charlotte Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy and Vanessa Paradis; also, "Berlin Bouncer", by David Dietl, invites to journey through the clubbing culture of German capital city, Berlin, and director Stephen Nomura Schible brings "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda", on the life of this Japanese architect.

Moreover, the Porto/Post/Doc programme features a special section devoted to Portuguese and Spanish language films.

The Transmission classification also screens the Portuguese film "Batida de Lisboa", by Rita Maia and Vasco Viana, a documentary shot in the outskirts of Lisbon to make known musicians and tunes from different places, such as Angola, São Tomé, Cabo Verde and Guinea Bissau.

Directed this year and to be screened at Porto/Post/Doc are the films "Um Punk Chamado Ribas", by Paulo Miguel Antunes, and "Punk's Not Dread", by Tiago Afonso, both about two leading figures of the Portuguese Punk music scene.

In the meantime, Porto/Post/Doc has been addressed as a case study for "small big film festivals: the keys to find what makes you unique" at the San Sebastian Festival, which runs from 20 to 28 September, 2019, and is promoted by ICAA - Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts/ Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spain.

The "Transmission category" also travels to the city of Braga, with the presentation of two sessions in the gnration: Wednesday, 27 November features the screening of "Batida de Lisboa", and Thursday, 28 November, the "New Order: Decades".

The 2019 edition of Porto/Post/Doc relies on the support of Porto City Hall, the ICA - Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual- Ministry of Culture, and the CVRVV - Vinho Verde.

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