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SUR LA STRE NURO (Portugal 2024)
Click or not...: SUR LA STRE NURO (Portugal 2024)“As Jonathan Uliel Saldanha states: “experimentation is everywhere”. Constructed through conversations with 23 of the most relevant Portuguese experimental sound artists, SUR LA STRE NURO reveals their different approaches to the processes of experimentation, exploring their works, gestures and innovative methodologies, in an uninhibited sonic and documentary journey into the creation of experimental music in Read more...
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THE ANCHORAGE OF TIME
Click or not...: THE ANCHORAGE OF TIMEIzidine, a recently promoted police officer, is called to a nursing home in an old colonial fort to investigate a crime: Vasto Excelêncio, the home’s director, has been murdered. Izidine encounters a surprise during his investigation: all the residents Izidine questions confess to having committed the murder. Each has a convincing motive and a credible Read more...
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LINDO (Portugal 2023)
Click or not...: LINDO (Portugal 2023)For over 20 years, Lindo hunted sea turtles on the island of Príncipe. After an encounter with an unexpectedly tame turtle, he decided to change his life and protect the animal from other predators. Now he delves into his past to search for clues that spark a debate about the island’s future and encourage reflection Read more...
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MANAS (Brazil 2024)
Click or not...: MANAS (Brazil 2024)Deep in the Amazon rainforest, 13-year-old Tielle grows up with dreams inspired by her older sister’s escape. As she matures, the illusions she clings to begin to crumble, revealing a world of deep-rooted exploitation and abuse. Determined to protect her younger sister and take control of their future, she dares to break out of the Read more...
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LUSOFEST SHORT FILM DAY ‘NOW… OR NEVER!’
Click or not...: LUSOFEST SHORT FILM DAY ‘NOW… OR NEVER!’This year's motto is ‘Now!’. As mentioned above, we have taken this as a call to action and an opportunity to present you with an even wider selection of our competition entries. We are using it programmatically to give you a little preview of LusOFest, which will be presenting short and feature films from the… Read more...
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14 JUNE 2025 – SUMMER SHORTS (PART 2)
Click or not...: 14 JUNE 2025 – SUMMER SHORTS (PART 2)At LusOFest, short films by filmmakers from the Rhine-Main region are screened alongside international productions from the Portuguese-speaking world. In June, we conclude the festival season with a small short film weekend, where we show some films from our shortlists that we were unable to show at the festival, as well as some older works Read more...
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26 JAN 2025 – VIVA PORTUGAL
Click or not...: 26 JAN 2025 – VIVA PORTUGALViva Portugal examines the period of transition to democracy in Portugal after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 and lets those involved have their say. The documentary film, made by Frankfurt director Malte Rauch together with Christiane Gerhards and Samuel Schirmbeck, turns 50. We will be showing the classic in an intimate setting at 57Nord over Read more...
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25 JAN 2025 – LONG NIGHT OF SHORTS
Click or not...: 25 JAN 2025 – LONG NIGHT OF SHORTSLots and lots of short 57Nordern lights. At the first LusOFest, we are showing short films by filmmakers from the Rhine-Main region, together with international productions from the Portuguese-speaking world. The submitted short films all had to be under 20 minutes long, but could come from any discipline (fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, music video, etc.). Read more...
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23.08.2024 LusOFest Summer Night
Click or not...: 23.08.2024 LusOFest Summer NightLeia em português 🇵🇹 Auf Deutsch lesen 🇩🇪 April 25th in shorts This short film programme, which we showed on Friday, 23 August 2024, in cooperation with the Filmklubb Offenbach, took an in-depth look at the cinematographic representation of the Carnation Revolution on the 25th of April 1974 in Portugal. For the 50th anniversary of Read more...
