It begins this Saturday the first edition of the International Film Festival of Luanda. "4 Hearts," by Manuel Mozos, is in competition, while Maria de Medeiros is presented in the Angolan capital as a singer.
Thought some years ago, and now finally realized, starts today and ends on 29 months of the first edition of the FIC Luanda. Taking advantage of the increasing normalization of national life, the festival extends particularly the cultural offer in the country, covering, in addition to the screenings of films themselves, exhibitions, concerts, conferences and book launches.
In the words of the Director of the Angolan Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual, responsible for organizing the event, Michael Hurst, this "is to encourage cultural exchanges in general and in particular the film, producers and directors among Angolans and foreigners, as well as revive the system of production and distribution of cinema in the country. "
The festival has an official opening scheduled for late afternoon today, at Cine-Atlantic, with the showing of the film "Troop of elite" by José Padilha, with a presence in Luanda one of the key players, Andre Ramiro. Moreover, Brazil and China are the two cinematografias honored.
The Portuguese presence is also clearly visible in Luanda. In the competition of feature films, the new film by Manuel Mozos, "4 cups" with Margaret Marino, John Hinckley, Filipe Duarte and Rita Martins, will be displayed side by side with works like "Deux jours to touer," the Frenchman Jean Becker, appearing recently in Portugal in the festival's French Cinema, the novel still among us "Happy-Go-Lucky," Mike Leigh's British, "My Blueberry Nights - The taste of love" by Wong Kar-wai, or the Africans "Juiu factory", the Congo and "Zimbabwe", South Africa
The Pepetela Auditorium, the Instituto Camões in Luanda, home to the exhibition of films in the competition section of short film and documentary, which will include the Portuguese film "God did not want", by Antonio Ferreira, "Kunta", of Angelo Torres, " Current "of Rodrigo Sands," The two sides of the war, "Andringa of Diana and Flora Gomes, and" Bab Sept. "by Peter Pine and Frederick Wolf.
In the international jury, chaired by Angolan artist Antonio Olé and integrating the journalist Stjepan Hundic and directors rachie Ferchiou and nevidonas Chikwendu, will also Leonor Silveira, muse of cinema from Manoel de Oliveira and currently Deputy of the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual.
In addition, Maria de Medeiros, invited to the festival as an actress UNESCO for Peace, acting with his trio in a concert to be held at Hotel Tropic, after the ceremony for a prize, a spectacle whose revenues accruing to charitable institutions. The Portuguese, author of the album "A little more blues," closed the dignified Festival of Jazz in Madrid in 2007 with the same trio that will monitor the Luanda: Pascal Salmon, the piano, Rómulo Marques, the contrabass, and Edmundo Carneiro In percussion.
The festival will also with a cycle devoted to African cinema, entitled Visions of Africa and a monitor that shows the new trends of the Angolan video.
Thought some years ago, and now finally realized, starts today and ends on 29 months of the first edition of the FIC Luanda. Taking advantage of the increasing normalization of national life, the festival extends particularly the cultural offer in the country, covering, in addition to the screenings of films themselves, exhibitions, concerts, conferences and book launches.
In the words of the Director of the Angolan Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual, responsible for organizing the event, Michael Hurst, this "is to encourage cultural exchanges in general and in particular the film, producers and directors among Angolans and foreigners, as well as revive the system of production and distribution of cinema in the country. "
The festival has an official opening scheduled for late afternoon today, at Cine-Atlantic, with the showing of the film "Troop of elite" by José Padilha, with a presence in Luanda one of the key players, Andre Ramiro. Moreover, Brazil and China are the two cinematografias honored.
The Portuguese presence is also clearly visible in Luanda. In the competition of feature films, the new film by Manuel Mozos, "4 cups" with Margaret Marino, John Hinckley, Filipe Duarte and Rita Martins, will be displayed side by side with works like "Deux jours to touer," the Frenchman Jean Becker, appearing recently in Portugal in the festival's French Cinema, the novel still among us "Happy-Go-Lucky," Mike Leigh's British, "My Blueberry Nights - The taste of love" by Wong Kar-wai, or the Africans "Juiu factory", the Congo and "Zimbabwe", South Africa
The Pepetela Auditorium, the Instituto Camões in Luanda, home to the exhibition of films in the competition section of short film and documentary, which will include the Portuguese film "God did not want", by Antonio Ferreira, "Kunta", of Angelo Torres, " Current "of Rodrigo Sands," The two sides of the war, "Andringa of Diana and Flora Gomes, and" Bab Sept. "by Peter Pine and Frederick Wolf.
In the international jury, chaired by Angolan artist Antonio Olé and integrating the journalist Stjepan Hundic and directors rachie Ferchiou and nevidonas Chikwendu, will also Leonor Silveira, muse of cinema from Manoel de Oliveira and currently Deputy of the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual.
In addition, Maria de Medeiros, invited to the festival as an actress UNESCO for Peace, acting with his trio in a concert to be held at Hotel Tropic, after the ceremony for a prize, a spectacle whose revenues accruing to charitable institutions. The Portuguese, author of the album "A little more blues," closed the dignified Festival of Jazz in Madrid in 2007 with the same trio that will monitor the Luanda: Pascal Salmon, the piano, Rómulo Marques, the contrabass, and Edmundo Carneiro In percussion.
The festival will also with a cycle devoted to African cinema, entitled Visions of Africa and a monitor that shows the new trends of the Angolan video.
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