NYPSFF: Portuguese Short Film Festival

TITLE: Skin of Light (Pele de Luz), 2019

Director: André Guiomar
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Trailer:

Duration: 18’

Synopsis:
Anifa survives a kidnap. Isa grows old surrounded by fear. In the heart of Maputo in Mozambique, these two sisters face together a place where the belief in black magic still pursues albino people.

TITLE: Voices By The Wind (Vozes ao Vento), 2019
Directors: Elton Fortes, Felix Lima, Pedro Ferreira and Tiago Nunes
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Duration: 4’

Synopsis:
Three immigrants from different countries report their journey, from leaving their country to setting up in Portugal.

TITLE: My Sister, 2019
Director: André Miranda
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Duration: 3’

Synopsis:
Some say a child’s imagination is stronger than any illness. When a sister gives her younger sibling a pair of special glasses we find out whether this is true.

TITLE: The Right to Be Remembered (Direito à Memória), 2019
Director: Rúben Sevivas
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Trailer:

Duration: 9’

Synopsis:
During the 48 years of dictatorship in Portugal, General Humberto Delgado was one of the most ferocious and daring opponents and a candidate to the presidential Elections in 1958. On may 22nd, 1958, General Humberto Delgado gave the famous speech that concluded his rally in Chaves, at the Cine-Parque. The secret police, PIDE destroyed all voice recordings of the General after the campaign, except this one, because it was buried in a backyard for many years. The speech held through time, but the Cine-Parque didn’t...

TITLE: Other Rhythm (Outro Ritmo), 2019
Director: Elton Fortes, Felix Lima, Pedro Ferreira and Tiago Nunes
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Trailer:

Duration: 6’

Synopsis:
An elderly man, satisfied with his peaceful rural routine, is invaded by a wild nomadic group who camps at the side of his house. During their stay, we see that he is not happy with their presence, but interaction with one of the children of the tribe will trigger changes in the way the old man interacts with the world.

TITLE: On The Cusp, 2019
Director: Yuri Alves
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Trailer:

On the Cusp | Trailer from Yuri Alves on Vimeo.
Duration: 10’

Synopsis:
Tommy Cuba, a renowned skateboarder from Newark, NJ, has competed in numerous tournaments and been profiled in top skating magazines. He is one of the founders of “Shorty’s Skate Park,” built by hand from scraps, a legendary hub for skating enthusiasts from all over the country. Despite a motherless childhood, Tommy owns a timeless joy for life and generosity of spirit that captivates all those around him. And yet, his deliberately insulated world cannot prepare him for the looming forces of change.

TITLE: PIP, 2019
Director: Bruno Simões
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Trailer:

Duration: 4’

Synopsis:
Little Pip has a big dream, to graduate as an elite guide dog. But as the smallest in her class, she never imagined it would be this hard. Does she have what it takes to be a hero?

TITLE: Miguel Araújo - AXL ROSE, 2019
Director: Bruno Caetano
Country: PT
Version: OmeU

Duration: 5’

Synopsis:
At the same time life gains meaning, the past tends to stay stuck to our memory like photographs that register its most relevant moments. In those past trices, just the most dear gain life, all the rest are nothing more than backdrop that adorn our path.

TITLE: Yellow Country (Terra Amarela), 2019
Director: Dinis Costa
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Duration: 18’

Synopsis:
In a remote and inhospitable place with its own rules, we follow the journey of a group of women forced into slavery.

TITLE: Bruma, 2019
Directors: Daniela Santos, Gabriel Peixoto, Mónica Correia e Sofia Cachim
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Duration: 6’

Synopsis:
Alice is a 13 year old teenager, curious and with initiative spirit, who lives with her father on an island surrounded by clouds. After her father’s death, Alice isolates herself and is taken on an emotional journey, in which she confronts her fear of life without her father. As soon as Alice overcomes her fear, her horizons open and she gets to know herself, being also ready to know the rest of the world.

TITLE: The Doll (A Boneca), 2019
Director: Gonçalo Morais Leitão
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Trailer:

Duration: 12’

Synopsis:
Diana does everything to have a doll.
Because she can´t forget.
And we can never forget she´s a child, the monster adults create with their sorrows.

TITLE: Fled. Lay. Fell. (Fugiu. Deitou-se. Caí.), 2019
Director: Bruno Carnide
Country: PT
Version: OmeU

Trailer:

FLED. LAY. FELL. | Super8 Teaser from Bruno Carnide on Vimeo.
Duration: 6’

Synopsis:
When reaching adulthood, a young woman talks about her days within a dysfunctional family; her fears, wishes and frustrations, that lead her on an unwavering quest for a peace that stubbornly doesn’t come.

TITLE: Still Life, 2019
Director: Francisca Coutinho
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Trailer:

Duration: 4’

Synopsis:
Metamorphosis from one moment to the next, leads this journey. The spaces of passage are no less real than those of arrival, they exist and are landscape, time passes, movement is constant, change is a permanent state.

TITLE: The Program, 2019
Director: Miguel M. Matias
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Duration: 8’

Synopsis:
Maggie Miller lost everything in the alien invasion: her husband, her child, her business. And though that’s in the past, Maggie doesn’t want to be a part of the present. She wants to be part of a program that will allow her to live in the world without actually being affected by it. The only thing in her way: the approval of Dr. Jason Gomez, a psychologist who decides who’s able to enter the program and who’s not.

 

TITLE: Bitter Salty (Amargo Salgado), 2019
Director: Joana X
Country: PT
Version: OmeU
Trailer:

Duration: 6’

Synopsis:
This film is a tribute to all of those who venture out upon the sea, to those who stay on land praying for them and to those who shot these images from 1930 to 1952. Using the technique of found-footage, this short-film is about the Portuguese sea, about the sweat of the fishermen who leave
and the cry of the women who stay in land, inspired by the verses of Fernando Pessoa: “O salty sea, so much of whose salt / Is Portugal’s tears!”, and David Mourão-Ferreira’s poem “Barco Negro”, sung by Amália Rodrigues. It is also an homage to Portuguese Cinema, and films such as “Maria do Mar” and “Ala-Arriba!” by Leitão de Barros, “Douro, Faina Fluvial” by Manoel de Oliveira, or “Nazaré” by Manuel Guimarães.