TRAVELLING THE ORIENT CYCLE - Cinema
JUNE 18, 22, 26
JULY 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24, 27
AUDITORIUM
TRAVELLING THE ORIENT CYCLE
Cinema
Co-production: Fundação Oriente Museum / Zero em Comportamento
PRICE: € 3.00
A voyage through distinct Asian landscapes and featuring some of the most defining countries of the region: India, Malaysia, Thailand and China. Linking the various films making up the Travelling the Orient cycle is the particular attention they dedicate to the locations and peoples that serve as the backdrop to the stories told within. Through cinema, this program provides an immersion deep into aspects of the reality and the culture of these countries which are, in the main, unknown to western publics.
PROGRAM
JUNE 18
18:00
L’INTOUCHABLE
Director: Benoît Jacquot
France, 2006, 82’, Colour
Language: French. Subtitled in Portuguese.
Over 16 yrs.
On the day of her birthday, Jeanne, a young actress learns from her mother that her father is an Indian man that she once met on the banks of the river Ganges.
She then abandons rehearsals for the Brecht play that she had so longed to do and accepts a shallow role in a lesser film simply to quickly earn the money and set off for India where she both hopes and fears meeting her biological father.
JUNE 22
18:00
HOW IS YOUR FISH TODAY? (Jin tian de yu zen me yang?)
Director: Xiaolu Guo
China/UK, 2007, 83’, Colour
Language: Chinese. Subtitled in Portuguese.
Over 16 yrs.
A youth from southern China who murdered his lover sets out on solitary flight through the country in direction of his “promised land”: a snowy village on the northern borders of China. In the meantime, in Beijing, a man writes the story of the fleeing murderer.
JUNE 26
18.00
WORKINGMAN’S DEATH
Director: Michael Glawogger
Austria/German, 2005, 122’, Colour/PB
Language: Pashtu, Yoruba, German, English, Ibo, Indonesian, Mandarin, Russian. Subtitled in Portuguese.
Over 16 yrs.
The film, in a documentary style, portrays five works and the extremes they experience as they attempt to earn a living. From the Ukraine, Indonesia, through Nigeria, China and Pakistan, this is a voyage to the four corners of the earth to discover the most dangerous and heaviest professions as the 21st century unfolds.
JULY 2
18:00
L’INTOUCHABLE
JULY 6
18:00
BORN INTO BROTHELS (CALCUTTA’S RED LIGHT KIDS)
Director: Ross Kauffmann and Zana Briski
India, 2004, 85’, Colour
Language: Bengali/English. Subtitled in Portuguese
Over 16 yrs.
The persons worst stigmatized in a Calcutta red light district are not the prostitutes but their children. Faced by abject poverty, abuse and despair, these children have little prospects of escaping the fate of their mothers. The directors chronicle the amazing transformation of the children that they meet in the red light district.
JULY 9
18:00
HOW IS YOUR FISH TODAY?
JULY 10
18:00
TAKING FATHER HOME
Director: Ying Liang
China, 2005, 100’. Colour
Language: Chinese. Subtitled in Portuguese
Over 16 yrs.
A 17 year old boy from a village in Sichuan province sets off for the city in search of his father who had departed six years ago and never to be heard of since. That his mother continues to receive monthly payments does not soften his anger. He is not seeking a nice reunion. What truly motivates him is uncontrollable rage.
JULY 13
18:00
TAKING FATHER HOME
JULY 17
18:00
A TREE IN YANJUNG MALIM
Director: Tan Chui Mui
Malaysia, 2004, 24’. Colour
Language: Chinese. Subtitled in Portuguese.
Over 16 yrs.
A woman on the brink of adulthood enters into a nightlong conversation with an older man. Little by little, feelings of love and affection emerge but the barrier existing between them is never to be destroyed.
COMPANY OF MUSHROOMS
Director: Tan Chui Mui
Malaysia, 2006, 30’. Colour
Language: Chinese / Malay. Subtitled in Portuguese.
Over 16 yrs.
An Italian restaurant serves as the background for the conversation between four male friends that naturally turns to women.
SOUTH OF SOUTH
Director: Tan Chui Mui
Malaysia, 2006, 11’. Colour
Language: Hokkien. Subtitled in Portuguese.
Over 16 yrs.
1984, Kuantan, Malaysia. Thousands of Vietnamese refugees begin arriving on the west coast. A film about the human need to adapt to transformations in the world around them.
JULY 20
18:00
FLOWER IN THE POCKET
Director: Seng Tat Liew
Malaysia, 2007, 97’. Colour
Language: Malay / Mandarin / English / Cantonese. Subtitled in Portuguese.
Over 16 yrs.
Two boys, Li Ahh and Li Ohm grow up motherless. Their father is a workaholic and has little time for his sons giving his time over to dressing shop-window mannequins. In the meantime, the brothers grow up on their own, taking to the streets for escapades and incidents. Far from the view of adults, the kids encounter adventures and choose a puppy as comrade on their journey.
JULY 24
18:00
A ILHA DA BOAVIDA (THE ISLAND OF BOAVIDA)
Director: Mercês Gomes
Portugal, 2006, 25’. Colour
Language: Portuguese
Over 16 yrs.
Twenty four hours in the daily life of the city of Mumbai, India as seen through a succession of intense images, sounds and music.
PÁTRIA INCERTA (UNKNOWN PATRIA)
Director: Inês Gonçalves and Vasco Pimentel
Portugal, 2006, 52’. Colour
Language: Portuguese
Over 16 yrs.
A look at an often overlooked aspect of colonisation: the capacity of a colonised people to create a highly eclectic civilisational culture. The memory of Portuguese culture lives on in Goa and reveals the vitality of Hindu culture, never extinguished and now present all over, even in Catholic Goans, the descendents of Hindu converts.
JULY 27
18:00
FLOWER IN THE POCKET
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