CORMORÁN FILM FEST
2019
I WAIT FOR TUA (RE) VOLTA (Eliza Capai, Brazil)
In a pre-Bolsonaro Brazil, protests for better public education become massive, reaching a critical level.
With this documentary, Eliza Capai vindicates, based on her protegonists, years of social struggle in a country on the brink of the abyss.
Monday 9 - 18:30
ACID (Alexander Gorchilin, Russia)
Sasha and Petya are two young Russians plunged into a spiral of partying, drugs and few prospects. Their families despise them, friends disappear. In the cold of Moscow, nobody knows very well what he is doing.
A raw and incisive film about the state and hopes of a lost generation.
Tuesday 10 - 16:30
FIELD (Tiago Hespanha, Portugal)
Military base, bee farm, land for ornithologists and farmers, vault for amateur astronomers ...
COUNTRYSIDE it is the crucible of the divine and the human.
A documentary bordering on fable that offers a bird's eye view of the world and all its things.
Tuesday 10 - 18:30
DIRTY GOD (Sacha Polak, The Netherlands)
Jade is a young English mother who survives to the cowardly acid attack of his ex-partner. With her face marked for life, she must mature by leaps and bounds and avoid sinking into the misfortune and helplessness that lead to self-destruction.
A very powerful work, with the rawness and poetry that the fight against oneself (and the whole world) can suppose.
Wednesday 11 - 18:30
SUMMER SURVIVORS (Marija Kavtaradze, Lithuania)
Indre, a young psychologist, must escort Paulius, a bipolar patient, from the clinic where you work to another center. Accompanies them Juste, who has attempted suicide. They will start a conversation soon about their traumas and hopes.
Road-movie at times tragic and funny, which investigates disorders
mental and human relationships.
Thursday 12 - 18:30
DIE GRUBE (Hristiana Raykova, Germany)
In the most famous thermal baths in Bulgaria you will find a microcosm where social class does not matter. A meeting place, currently despised by many, adored by its users.
A beautiful portrait of the passage of time of emblematic places. And the State / Collective conflict in El Hoyo del Mar Negro.
Friday 13 - 16:30
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SCHEME BIRDS (Ellinor Hallin and Ellen Fiske, Sweden)
Gemma is a Scottish girl from an industrial neighborhood. He lives in a poor and conflictive environment, in which he will have to fight hard to get ahead. Ellinor Hallin and Ellen Fiske present us with a heartbreaking documentary on the social upheavals behind economic neglect.
An open-hearted film, heir to the most combative Ken Loach.
Friday the 13th - 18:30
SHORT 1
( Wednesday 13 - 17:00 )
A man intercepts a young man running in the street. They say he has stolen a mobile phone. The public quickly judges and corners the thief.
A thrilling short film by Felipe Gálvez about the need for guilt and the hypocrisy of the system.
Two children seek refuge from violence in the mountains of Sinaloa.
Experimental piece with a disturbing atmosphere. Where nature will become a dream, and fear will become serenity.
BENIDORM
2017
BENIDORM
2017
A tsunami is about to hit Benidorm. The authorities evacuate the town, but Teresa, a woman who runs a beachfront hotel, decides to stay despite the warnings.
Claudia Costafreda's impeccable short film about the mother-son relationship, loneliness and abandonment
Elinborg and Maria meet at the supermarket. The conversation is trivial, but it seems that Elinborg has forgotten her friend's birthday. What's worse, she may have even deleted her from Facebook.
Johannes Nørregaard reflects with laughter on the reach of social media and its impact on daily life.
SHORT 2
( Thursday 12 - five pm )
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Doll knows how to fix things. She finds her parts at the neighbours' scrapyard, where she receives unexpected help from the family's daughter.
Catalina Álvarez presents this short as a strange child of David Lynch and Richard Linklater, about the crisis and integration of Latino communities in the southern United States.
Mother and daughter work the beach in search of something to sell to get by. They barely have enough to eat, and one night of rough tide the mother decides to work despite the danger.
Nuno Baltazar presents an emotional short film about the underside of our society: the lives of the less fortunate on the margins of the Western dream.
Lucía is a young handball player. After training, she goes to pick up her brother on a motorbike through seemingly quiet streets.
A devastating short film by Álvaro Gago about the vulnerability and danger that lurks beneath the everyday.
Barbara and Pol spend a few days on holiday in a country house with some friends. It is a quiet place where Barbara will remember past wounds and try to heal them in privacy with Pol.
Beautiful short film by Irene Moray about trauma, trust, love and overcoming.
The cormorant is one of the few bird species that is able to dive underwater in search of food, come back up to the surface, and fly again. That is why Cormorán Film Fest chooses this animal as a symbol of a certain type of cinema, one that reaches down in the depths of human condition, submerges in our social and emotional ins and outs, creating honest and strong films, without masks or fake impositions that limit the author and his team's point of view.
This small festival is no more than an attempt on encouraging the transgression and positive criticism on the seventh art, the power that cinema has always had to raise awareness and thrill.
Just as Parquet Courts suggest in their last album, Wide awake, we are living in confusing times, facing an uncertain future and at a first sight, a pretty rough one too. That is why, rather than just complaining about it, Cormorán proposes a search for solutions and the creation of awareness.
Because cinema is feeling, and with that, you can move nations.
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Feature films
7 selected from around the world. A category filled with beauty and reality.
Feature films
Short films
8 selected. From promising young stars to renowned filmmakers. The briefest complexity.
Short films
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