The opening of this year’s edition of the festival is scheduled for 9:45 p.m., in the Avanca Parish Auditorium, with commemorative tributes to the festival’s 25th anniversary and the 2021 awards ceremony.
The first competitive night is marked by the world premiere of works by two of the “most representative Portuguese animated filmmakers”. Manuel Matos Barbosa and Claudio Jordão.
Manuel Matos Barbosa, the dean of Portuguese animation, recently distinguished by the Portuguese Academy of Cinema, premieres his new film, “O Antiquário”.
Based on a play by Fialho de Almeida, the film features music by Joaquim Pavão and the unmistakable voice of actor Ruy de Carvalho.
Another premiere is “A Espuma eo Leão”, a new film by Cláudio Jordão, one of the most awarded authors of Portuguese animated cinema.
“A look at the brave journey from Olhão to Rio de Janeiro of 18 intrepid sailors who, in July 1808, brought the news of a free Portugal to the court of Portuguese refugees in the land of Santa Cruz”, is the theme of the film.
It is a film that the author had in mind for more than a decade, and that now appears “in an unexpected and digital mosaic panel, in which all the 3D animation marks the intrepid journey of the small caique of the Algarve”.
Under the sign of the displaced, the Avanca Film Festival will have several main courses the next day: “The Empire of Silence”, by Belgian director Thierry Michel, is screened at 2:30 p.m., being “an in-depth account of two murders that took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in March 2017.”
In the late afternoon, at 6:15 p.m., André Valentim Almeida’s latest work, the documentary “Famille FC”, is screened, which deals with the football clubs of the Portuguese communities around Paris.
The world premiere film “Viagens em Cabeças Estrangeiras”, by the Portuguese-French director António Amaral, will be screened in the evening session, which will feature the director and actor Julien Darney, for the presentation of the film.
“In this work, three aliens live in human bodies. The three must return to their planet, but one of them refuses to leave the body of a Malian activist who works in the organization of a large street demonstration for the labor rights of migrants, “says the synopsis.
Closing the night, “Toutes les nuits” will also be screened, the latest work by director Latifa Said, whose filmography deals with displaced people.
The 26 Avanca takes place until Monday, in the Parish Auditorium of Avanca and in Cinema Vida in Ovar, being organized by the Cine Clube de Avanca and the Municipality of Estarreja.
Source: Observadora
