In keeping with a good tradition, we are continuing our cooperation with the Portuguese production companies Terratreme Filmes and Oublaum Filmes and will be releasing a series of films that have been screened and awarded at festivals around the world and also deserve to be seen here. The filmmaking that the two Portuguese production houses and their environment stand for is full of ideas, breaks genre boundaries and celebrates the artistic freedom of cinema.

Two of the titles - MATO SECO EM CHAMAS (DRY GROUND BURNING) by Joana Pimenta and ÁGUAS DO PASTAZA (WATERS OF PASTAZA) by Inês T. Alves - will be released in August and will be shown at Wolf for a week each from 10 and 17 August respectively, including a film discussion. Three others - Susana Nobre's CIDADE RABAT, Raul Domingo's TERRA QUE MARCA (STRIKING LAND) and ONDE FICA ESTA RUA? OU SEM ANTES NEM DEPOIS (WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE AND AFTER by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata - will follow in autumn and will each be shown in previews in August.

As different as the five films are in their artistic approaches, they are united by a serious examination of the conditions in which we live and the world that surrounds us. In its mix of documentary, fiction and genre elements, DRY GROUND BURNING by Joana Pimenta is an electrifying portrait of Brazil's dystopian present, which at the same time sketches a radical vision of the country's future - female, black and matriarchal.
The two titles produced by Oblaum, WATERS OF PASTAZA and STRIKING LAND, deal with the environment and how we interact with it. Soberly and with great calm, but at the same time very sensually, Inês T. Alves observes in WATERS OF PASTAZA a group of children at a river course in the Amazon region who live in deep connection with each other and the environment. In STRIKING LAND, the camera's devoted interest is directed at the tasks with which the land is still cultivated by hand and with classic machines in rural areas and unfolds an unexpected pull.
CIDADE RABAT by Susana Nobre, whose previous films TEMPO COMUM (ORDINARY TIME) and NO TÁXI DO JACK (JACK'S RIDE) we already released as part of the last distribution cooperation with Terratreme, is a laconic film about the grief of a woman in mid-life crisis, which tenderly manages to convey the constant feeling that something is out of place.
And WHERE IS THIS STREET?, a collaborative work by cult filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues, who has been a guest at the Wolf several times with his films, and his partner João Rui Guerra da Mata, is a playful re-encounter with the locations from Paulo Rocha's 1963 film Os Verdes Anos and an exploration of Lisbon in the present day marked by the Corona pandemic.