Phantasmas familiares e Os Inocentes I Quico Cadaval

Um filme de Jorge Vaz Gomes

PROGRAM
 

Conversations in the eyes
CINEMA AND TALK
Jorge Vaz Gomes
July 30th Jardim das Gerações, Espinhal I 9:30 pm

Duration: 50'

Hosted by Catarina Santana

Mapa-Esquisito, 2018 - 21’55’’ (english subtitles)
My family emigrated to France in the 1960s, but shortly thereafter my mother was forced to return. Perhaps for this reason we moved house eight times and escaped whenever possible to the village, where France's family was on vacation. This restlessness has crept into my dreams ever since and never left them. It is through the images of these childhood dreams and places that I try to understand if there is a possible geography, for someone with a history that doesn't seem to belong anywhere.

DIRECTION: Jorge Vaz Gomes PRODUCTION: Kintop Filmes
FESTIVALS: IndieLisboa’18, CurtaArruda 2018 Short View, Viseu 2018 and FIKE 2018, Évora. Best Portuguese Film Award CINENOVA 2019, Lisbon.
 

Jean-Claude - 12'53' (english subtitles)
About 10 years ago, photographic plaques from the 1930s, found at the Paris flea market, in the same neighborhood where Patrick Modiano's book “Dora Bruder” is set, serve as a starting point for the story of a family. Precisely during the 1930s, that time of apparent peace and quiet lurking in the wake of World War II.

DIRECTION / SCRIPT / EDITING / PRODUCTION: Jorge Vaz Gomes TEXT REVIEW: Gloria Vaz SOUND: Jorge Cabanelas Pereira
FESTIVALS: Official Competition of War on Screen Festival 2017 and Honorable Mention of the Tree of Life Award, at IndieLisboa’16.

Todas as contas vão no mesmo fio (pt)
STORYTELLING MASTERCLASS
Quico Cadaval
July 31st Municipal Auditorium of Penela I 10am-12pm

The art of telling stories is at the base of the construction of the human, such as singing and dancing. The three were what we needed to get here. Nobody discusses the difficulty of singing and dancing, many people do not dare for fear of ridicule. Telling stories is different, it is considered so natural, so connected to life itself that anyone thinks they are capable of doing it. And people agree that it is within anyones reach (mayors, housewives, teachers, dancers, priests or sweepers. We know that children are taught with stories, dating is preceded by important doses of fiction and any artistic or political project must be accompanied by a “well told” story. What is the reason why more and more people feel intimidated by the banal challenge of telling a story? On the one hand, because there are rumors that there are professionals who do this comme il faut, on the other, because we gave up and entrust this work to external memory devices, cable TV and the Internet.

But the river of the tale we collectively make continues to flow between us each time we step outside or enter the bar. Every time we have a meeting with others and we rub our antennae to inform, recognize, enrich, console, stimulate, amuse, clarify... That's all, do what we already knew, and recognize that it is an artistic activity, such as singing dancing. We just have to learn some steps and some melodies. Then just tell.

Phantasmas Familiares (pt-ga)
STORYTELLING
Quico Cadaval
July 31st Casa Família Oliveira Guimarães (outdoors), Espinhal I 6:30 pm

Duration: 75 min

The traditional tales that were passed down through the years in a domestic way and often in bed darkness are now passed on to a scenic form. Telling what you heard in the family circle has something of oral literature, a little theater and a lot of circus. For many people the act of remembering is itself acrobatic. Quico Cadaval's stories are of ghosts, of people who were alive, and now are dead and always appear theatrically coming out of the darkness or mist. Ironically, all the characters evoked on a scenic stage are a kind of ghosts: they appear thanks to the innocent candor of the audience, and with the first hint of skepticism, the character disappears, the ghost fades into the shadows and returns to the shadows. There he waits for you to bring him back to life again, the only one who can do it: the right word, spoken aloud.

Funerals, wise old ladies, muleteers, merchants, sailors, rejuvenators, drunks, peasants, lovers, spinners, saints, chauffeurs… characters from the tales heard in family evenings, will appear as ghosts, conjured by the words of Quico Cadaval.

Os Inocentes (pt-ga)
STORYTELLING
Quico Cadaval
August 1st at the edge of the village, Chanca I 6:30 pm

Duration: 75 min, M/12

After rescuing old tales from the surroundings of his own family, Quico Cadaval sought or found new materials in life stories. The adventure of any anonymous person, male or female, has the same values ​​as the old legends of warriors and witches. All you have to do is listen carefully and the great everyday epic will appear. In the repertoire entitled “The Innocents” there are stories of characters who are the marginalized, the spared, those sent to the end of the line… Their names vary from country to country. They are the souls, the good ones of God, the ones in good faith, the ones who don't know what they're in the world for, the ones who lack a fervor, the Innocents. Certainly, in your land you will also have a compassionate and condescending name. There are three who today would be called disabled and who face the horror of the Spanish war. Manuel, Marquinhos and Pastor, three blessed ones who go to that hell invented by the intelligent. War was a taboo subject in the years of Francoism, individual memory had been crushed by the official triumphalism of the victors. The poor people had to be silent, but their stories finally surfaced. They appeared, like damp stains.