Event

28.11.
—18.12.

Wolf presents: Contemporary Portuguese Cinema

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Each year, Wolf presents a selection of contemporary Portuguese films made in the environment of the independent Portuguese film production company Terratreme. Founded in 2008 by a group of young filmmakers, Terratreme pools the resources of its members to create films that are full of ideas, break genre boundaries and celebrate the artistic freedom of cinema.

This year, after Clandestina by Maria Mire (Portugal 2023, 83'), we are showing three more recent works that have been screened and awarded at numerous international film festivals, each for one week in our cinema. All films are German premieres.

The works, which are documentary in a broader sense, deal with the relationship between past and present in very different ways: Maria Mire's playful approach to the Portuguese artist and resistance fighter Margarida Tengarrinha, Clandestina, tells of life underground in fascist times - in order to draw lessons for today's conditions. João Rosa's film Death of a City portrays the everyday lives and stories of the majority of undocumented workers on a major construction site in Lisbon and reflects on the transformation of the city in the wake of the financial crisis and the subsequent real estate and tourism boom. Ospina Cali Columbia by Jorge de Carvalho is a journey into the eventful life and work of the legendary Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina and Astrakan 79 by Catarina Mourão tells of the formative experience of a Portuguese schoolboy in the Soviet Union in 1979.

Ab 28. November: Death of a City
Regie: João Rosas, Portugal 2022, 116', Portuguese with english subtitles

In the heart of Bairro Alto, right in the centre of Lisbon, the building of an old printing workshop is demolished to make way for luxury apartments. João Rojas crafts an intricate urban diary portraying the daily life of the construction site and those who work there.

Ab 5. Dezember: Ospina Cali Columbia
Regie: Jorge de Carvalho, Portugal 2023, 80', Portuguese with english subtitles

A journey into the life and work of legendary Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina.

Ab 12. Dezember: Astrakan 79
Regie: Catarina Mourão; Portugal 2023, 63', Portuguese with english subtitles

In her new film, Catarina Mourão captures with tremendous precision the moment a father passes on a story to his son, a story that has been a family taboo for decades.