An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift.Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematographic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. His turns of fortune and his knowledge, my own turns of fortune. For him, and for me now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me so that even now he can continue to film through me.

Beyond the Mountains (O Homem de Trás-os-Montes), Miguel Moraes Cabral
Fiction, 2017, 29′

In love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel looks for stories for his new documentary. One day, the appearance of a man riding a donkey changes his future.

Session 2, 9:00 pm

Day 32 (Dia 32), Andre Valentim de Almeida
Documentary, 2017, 90′

Faced with the possibility of an ending, the director decides to create a time capsule made of images – iconic and banal, public and personal – aimed to a future intelligent species, and starts out an exploration of places, images and ideas.