Catalogue des films de « João Ribeiro »
Image | Portugal | 2017
Mingling photos taken by the political police during the Salazar dictatorship and testimonies from the children of an assassinated communist activist, "Obscure Light" invents a form that recreates as faithfully as possible a family’s broken...
Image | Portugal | 2016
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...
Image | Portugal | 2016
Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXIst century: Poland, Russia, Ukraine. The slogan of the post-war "Never Again" sounds now like a fairy tale. Everything is happening again. Everywhere.
Image | Portugal | 2015
In the mid 1950’s my grandfather was committed to a psychiatric hospital, my uncle becomes a political prisoner, and my mother aged 11 was sent to a boarding school. Since then she hardly saw her father and brother. Today my aunt owns the family...
Image | Portugal | 2014
Alentejo, sud du Portugal. Des dizaines de chœurs polyphoniques amateurs se rassemblent régulièrement pour chanter des airs classiques et des créations contemporaines de cante alentejano : né dans les tavernes et dans les champs, chanté par...
Image | France | 2013
Portrait du cinéaste et critique Jean-Louis Comolli.
Image | France | 2010
Christian Prigent is a major writer in contemporary French literature.
Image | Belgique | 2010
Berta still doesn’t feel at home in Portugal. Her musings take us to her real ‘home’: the city of Beira. Here resides the Grande Hotel, an eyewitness to colonialism, a revolutionary and a civil war. This megalomaneous pride and joy of the...
Image | Portugal | 2008
Alberto Carneiro is a sculptor. He was born in São Mamede do Coronado, a rural area in the north of Portugal, where for several years he worked as a religious statue maker before embarking on the path that led to his becoming one of the most...
Image | Portugal, Guinée-Bissau | 2007
In 1963, PAIGC – African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Vert – started a liberation struggle against Portuguese rule. PAIGC’s leader Amílcar Cabral made always clear that they were fighting colonialism, not the...