Macao is an important cultural hub and exchange platform for China and Portuguese-speaking countries. Last year's Film Festival of China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, as one of the events of the inaugural Macao-China-Portuguese Culture and Arts Festival, brought a unique vision of Chinese and Portuguese cinema to audiences with different cultural backgrounds. This year, we will continue to work hard to introduce Portuguese-language films to Macao audiences, as well as to present contemporary Chinese films to the Portuguese-speaking community, as well as a series of films shot by Macao filmmakers, so that everyone can see the power of Macao imagery today. The film festival will consist of more than 20 films, divided into three sections: "Classic Review", "Sino-Portuguese New Horizon" and "Olá Macau", accompanied by a series of pre-screening guides and post-screening discussions.
Poet director Fei Mu's famous work "Spring in a Small Town" is definitely a classic in the history of Chinese cinema, and this screening is fortunate to be provided with a restored version of "Spring in a Small Town" by the China Film Data Museum, and it is also the first time it has been screened in Macao, which makes people especially look forward to this big-screen film encounter. Professor Dai Jinhua of Peking University was also honored to attend the opening seminar, talking about space and people in Chinese films, and exploring the flow of light and shadow from the countryside to the city. The closing film, Lyda Gomes's poetic experimental period drama "Flowers Under the Bodhi Tree", is adapted from the short story "Portuguese Woman" by Olidi writer Robert Muzier, which tells the story of a Portuguese woman who marries a foreign country and her husband marches to the battlefield.
In the Chinese film section, senior guest curator Qiao Yisi led the audience to travel through the light and shadow flow of Chinese films from the countryside to the city, with a wide range of themes and diverse styles. "Classic Review" recreates Jia Zhangke's internationally renowned "Three Gorges Good Man" and the early intimidating narrative tension of the exploration focus director Zhang Yang; contemporary works convey contemporary sounds, each work outlines a moving life, and each story is dissected and thought-provoking, among which Zhou Jie's "Light Blue Amber", directed by Macao director Ouyang Yongfeng, won the Best Cinematography Award at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival "Asian Newcomer Award".
In terms of Portuguese-speaking films, Xu Kuangci, a guest curator who loves Portuguese-language films, has selected six excellent films produced in Portugal, Brazil, Angola and Guinea-Bissau in recent years for the audience, bringing a fan feast to the audience. Different from last year's grand and cross-continental Portuguese video creation map, this year's selected Portuguese works highlight issues such as cultural recognition. The "New Horizons of China and Portuguese" and the "Classic Review" session each broadcast three excellent works, which not only welded in speculation, but also continued the audience's imagination of Portuguese culture and history.
As the meeting point of Culture and Arts between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, Olá Macau will screen four outstanding feature films subsidized by the first Feature Film Production Support Scheme organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Macao, five outstanding animation works subsidized by the first Original Animated Short Film Production Subsidy Scheme, and a number of outstanding local short films. Through this important platform for artistic exchange, audiences in Macao and the world can get a glimpse of the latest developments in Macao cinema and the unique film stories that originated in Macao. Exciting!
The 2nd China and Portuguese-speaking Film Festival complete film list
Opening Film & Events:
Fermow's Spring in a Small Town
Faymu's Spring in a Small Town (restored version)
1948 | 93' | China | Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | black and white
Tracing back the classics of film history, this year's film festival has the honor of receiving a restored version of "Spring in a Small Town" provided by the China Film Data Museum for the first time in Macao. In the small southern city, the young woman Zhou Yuwen and her long-term sick husband Dai Liyan had a dull and tasteless married life, until Zhang Zhichen, an old classmate who had not been seen for many years, came to visit, causing ripples in their lives. Fei Mu presents the changes of the times with a brushwork that is far from the times and presents the hearts of women in a small city. Directing, choreographing, acting, photography, scheduling and art all present a level that transcends the times and is aesthetically accomplished in early Chinese films.
——Cultural Center Small Theater 2019-07-04 19:45——
Opening Film "Spring in a Small Town" Post-Screening Discussion --"Flow of Light and Shadow- Space and People in Chinese Cinema"
Speaker: Dr. Dai Jinhua, a well-known scholar of film and culture studies, and Qiao Yisi, guest curator
The birth of film is inseparable from the city, and the city has also become an important space for film narrative. In Fei Mu's legendary work "Spring in a Small Town", Yu Wen walks up the city wall in the gap between buying medicine or vegetables, and gets a moment of escape and detachment. A city wall draws a blurred boundary between the small town and the countryside, the traditional and the modern, the past and the future. Let's start with Chinese films before the founding of the People's Republic of China, until the new vision of Chinese films at present, looking at the stories of cities and people in the flow of light and shadow.
Classic review
"The Good Man of the Three Gorges" Jia Zhangke
2006 | 112' | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Jia Zhangke's fifth feature film won the Golden Lion Award at that year's Venice Film Festival. Set against the backdrop of the real progress of the third phase of the Three Gorges Dam Project, the film tells the story of two Shanxi people who have traveled thousands of miles and come to the ancient capital of Fengjie to find their relatives. The two-line narrative presents what coal miner Han Sanming and nurse Shen Hong see and feel, and presents a two-line narrative to record the living conditions of ordinary people under the torrent of urbanization, retaining the historical moments of ancient capital flooding.
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There are post-screening panelists: a famous Hong Kong film critic
"Bath" (Focus Director: Zhang Yang)
1999 | 92' | China | Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Zhang Yang's second feature film is also his international work. Continuing the easy jump in "Love Spicy Hot", the fully automatic shower shot at the beginning of the film still seems to be modern. Where to go from the traditional "bathhouse" culture has become an interesting question between father and son, and the film covers a rich story texture such as the joy of neighborhood life and the cultural differences between the north and the south, and the actors are quite outstanding. The director's yearning for Tibetan culture has already appeared in this film.
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Film critics pre-screening guide speaker: guest curator Joe Yisi
"Falling Leaves Return to the Roots" (Focus Director: Zhang Yang)
2007 | 110' | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
An old migrant worker traveled thousands of miles to transport the body of his friend back to his hometown. In order to save money, he did everything he could, dressing up the corpse as a drunkard and a sick person, experiencing ups and downs along the way, but what he saw when he returned home was even more sad. The theme is taken from the social news of that year, director Zhang Yang invited comedians such as Zhao Benshan and Guo Degang to interpret this alternative road story with black humor, showing the director's ability to pinch sorrow and joy. The urban and rural changes seen along the way, the insight into the cold and warm of the world, made people laugh and cry.
——Love ‧ Movie House 2019-07-17 19:30——
"Island of Love" Paul. Rosha
1982 | 170' | Portugal, Japan | Portuguese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Legendary director Paul Rosha, after more than a decade of silence, shot the work in a classicist way in the 1980s, with a poetic narrative approach that was very different from the style of the old one. The works exude an intoxicating aura in the international film world, telling the story of the Portuguese literary hero Muras traveling to the Far East, touching cultural differences, romantic love and life experience.
——Love ‧ Movie House 2019-07-06 15:00——
"Death Antonio" Gerbe. Rosha
1969 | 100' | Brazil, France, Germany, the United States | Portuguese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Following the popular masterpiece "Black God White Devil", director Belle . Rocha continues the story of the bad guy Anton Leo, and the Brazilian Western "Antonio the Grim Reaper" is set in the mountainous countryside after World War II, and delvies into the influence and decline of the Brazilian government machine "Coronelism". The film's director, Gerbert Rocha, is also hailed as a central figure in the "New Brazilian Cinema" movement, which successfully blends genre films with social issues.
——Love ‧ Movie House 2019-07-12 19:30——
"Between the Revolutions" by Flora. Gomes
1988 | 85' | Kinejabissau | Portuguese and Creole dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Flora, the founding father of the film industry in Gianya-Bissau. Gomez's first feature film, which combines the texture of a documentary with the presentation of a drama, tells the story of the war of independence in Abia-Bissau through the contradictory relationship between the woman Di Meijia and the military husband. This work is not only a precious record of people and events in war, but also has a major impact on post-colonial African cinema.
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Guest curator Xu Kuangci will introduce the characteristics of Portuguese African cinema
A New Horizon between China and Portugal
"Light Blue Amber" Zhou Jie
2018 | 96' | China | Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
How much is a person worth living a day? Amber, as a metaphor for the freeze frame of death, is used to describe the state of the heroine Hejie after facing the unexpected death of her husband, and it is cleverly conceived. Shunshu, flashbacks, and interludes piece together the appearance of her life, rich but lost all her relatives, and her life suddenly lost its direction in the price tag. Director Zhou Jie adapted Xu Yigua's novel "Two Hundred and Forty Months of Life", and the first work showed the arrogance of talent. Macau director Au Yeung Wing Fung, who is the director of photography, has contributed to the aesthetic grasp of filters and composition.
——Love ‧ Movie House 2019-07-06 20:00——
There will be post-screening panelists: Director Zhou Jie and local filmmaker Ouyang Yongfeng, who won the Asian Newcomer Award for Best Cinematography at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival
"Crashed into a Sheep" Wan Ma Tse-dan
2018 | 86' | China | Tibetan dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Directed by Tibetan director Wan Ma Tse-dan and wong Kar-wai as executive producer, the two collaborated for the first time. The story features Khampa Hanzi as the protagonist, combining Wan Ma Tseden's novel of the same name with Tibetan writer Tsering Rob's short story "The Killer", telling a story of killing and redemption. The brief intersection of the two men, both called Kimba, enlightened each other's lives. The sheep that are killed, the people to be killed, the superficial weight is unbalanced, but they eventually reach equality. The interweaving of realism and freehand is a new attempt by Wan Ma Tse-dan.
——Love ‧ Movie House 2019-07-07 17:30——
"Goodbye, Nanping Evening Bell" Xiangzi
2019 | 107' | China | Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
In the first feature film by young director Xiang Zi, she combines her own growth experience, examines the hidden contradictions of the original family, and bravely touches sharp problems such as same wife and paganism. The film begins with her daughter Huang Xiaoyun taking her foreign boyfriend home, unveiling the hidden feelings buried for many years behind the marriage tug-of-war between her parents, adding irony and joy to the existence of paganism, and the ending reversal is a bold stroke. The film is produced independently, delicately and neatly, and has won international applause.
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There is a post-screening panel discussion, sharing the speaker: guest curator Qiao Yisi
"The Earth Is Long and Long" Wang Xiaoshuai
2019 | 174' | China | Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Director Wang Xiaoshuai's new work examines the changes in history and society through the life of the two families who have clarified their grievances, and the male and female protagonists of the film have won the Berlin Film Festival Film Emperor and Film Queen Awards.
Close friends Liu Yaojun and Shen Yingming, married and had children when they were young, and their families often gathered together. One day, Yao Jun's son died unexpectedly, and the fate of the two families changed completely. YaoJun and his wife hid in a fishing village in Jiangnan to run a shop to survive, and their adopted children could not be integrated into the family. Shen Yingming and his wife had a good career, but due to another hidden accident that year, their lives were not peaceful. Years later, they met again, and the truth came out.
——Venue: Love ‧ Movie Museum 2019-07-14 15:00——
The Book of the Apocalypse of Holy Love, Gabbio. Maca Road
2019 | 101' | Brazil, Uruguay, Denmark, Norway, Chile, Sweden | Portuguese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Brazilian director and visual artist Gabbio Macallu's third feature film, set in 2027, when Brazil has become a Christian evangelical state. Joana has passed the fortieth mark and is eager to have children for her husband, and the devout woman tries to help couples who sleep in the same bed and dream and encourage them to join a divine "sex" organization, but at the same time, the relationship between Joana and her husband gradually arises.
Unlike the director's first two works set in urban and rural settings, Gabbio Macaroo intertwines issues such as sex, religion and the female body in this new fantasy work with futuristic elements.
——Love ‧ Movie House 2019-07-07 20:30——
Film critics pre-screening guide speaker: guest curator Xu Kuangci
The Vulture Revenant of the Snake and the Vulture, Carlos. Jiangxi Sand
2019 | 83' | Angola, Portugal | Portuguese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Portuguese director Carlos. Jiangxi Sha's first work is a story about searching and returning. After a tragic event, Africa became a wasteland. A young man who left his birthplace of Africa as a teenager to live in Europe is now returning to Africa with the voice of his deceased mother, trying to find her ghost. On the road, every step he steps on is mixed with memories, present and future time and space. This mysterious work was shortlisted for the "Best First Feature Film" award at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival.
——Love ‧ Movie House 2019-07-10 21:30——
Olá Macau
"Bone Sister" Xu Xinxian
2016 | 97' | Macau | Cantonese and Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
Around the friendship, grudge and misunderstanding between the two bone sisters and the spirit, the background of the story spans more than ten years before and after the return of Macao. Poetry, who has moved to Taiwan and has been married for many years, learns from the newspaper search advertisement that her young friend Ling Ling has passed away, so she returns to Macao to deal with her inheritance, and once again meets Ling Ling's grown-up young son; the past and the present are intertwined, and the poems also re-acquaint themselves with Ling Ling, even herself and the ever-changing Macao...
——Love ‧ Movie House 2019-07-09 19:30——
"Love is colder than death" He Fei
2016 | 90' | Macau | Cantonese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
The story takes place in the mid-1990s, when Macau had not yet returned to China, and two teenagers were burying their heads and destroying their bodies after killing people. What was the motive for the killing? Is it necessary to kill the ring? Will you be safe after committing a crime? It all started with their encounter, the girl had just arrived in Macau from Chinese mainland, the new immigrants had been bullied in school, and his family was complicated and had dealt with gangsters since childhood. When the two meet, they are deeply attracted to each other and then fall in love, but are the two in love with each other or use each other?
——Love ‧ Movie House 2019-07-10 19:30——
"Over the Clouds and Rain" Chen Jiaqiang
2017 | 92' | Macau | Cantonese and Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
The three-year-old Xiaolu Qiangzai's long-planned moon landing plan inadvertently killed Chen Li, a sloppy yard boy; Frankie, who was obsessed with the teacher and let Jiawen suffer from losses and losses, and Frankie, who constantly passed by, gradually became her guardian angel; the honest man Kevin met the beautiful Miss Mimi who came to Macau to start work when his wife was about to be born. Each of the six people has their own "black boy", and the exceptional state of life in one scene after another is as sudden as the rain of clouds. The city is too small, there are too many coincidences, extraordinary greed and lust, and everyone tries to find their own luck in this small town.
——Love ‧ Movie House2019-07-11 19:30——
"The Emperor Hotel" Versau
2018 | 82' | Portugal, Macau | Cantonese and Portuguese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
The Emperor Hotel is located in Macau's traditional old district, where neon lights are draped with clothes and smoky streets are tangled with messy wires. The inn was home to Maria and her father, who was getting older and the burden of continuing to run the dilapidated hotel fell on her shoulders. Maria is a singer who sings "Fado" in the casino, and although she struggles to make money from gambling and prostitution, her money is still tight, and the real estate developers keep forcing them to change hands on the hotel. It was at this time that Chu, a mysterious young man obsessed with Maria, appeared. Shattered Dreams, Greed and Decadence: An Account of Present-Day Macau Twenty Years After Returning to China.
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Animate new humans
"Daddy's Lunch", "Lighthouse", "Starry Night", "Peninsula Teacher's Milk", "Food Classmate", "White Rabbit Boy and Crocodile Girl" 6 films
2018, 2019 | 38'30" | Macau | Cantonese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | No dialogue, no subtitles | colored
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"Daddy's Lunch" Pan Lifeng
Macau | 2018 | 6’ | Cantonese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles
The little girl delivered food to her father, but on the way she was knocked down by a boy's football, and the food was scattered all over the ground. In order to make up for his mistakes, the boy takes the girl to overcome all difficulties, collects various snacks, and finally the father happily shares a unique lunch with his daughter.
"Lighthouse" Li Peirong
Macau | 2018 | 7’ 30” | No dialogue, no subtitles
As night fell, Luke climbed the abandoned lighthouse and tried to rekindle the memories buried under the glass curtain wall in the dusty parts.
"Starry Night" Ancient Treasure Crystal
Macau | 2018 | 5’ | No dialogue, no subtitles
The shy little boy is not used to communicating with others, until one day, he accidentally finds a shiny little fish in the stream and takes him home, and his life begins to change...
"Peninsula Master's Milk" Lo Ka Chui
Macau | 2019 | 10’ | Cantonese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles
Adapted from the webcomic "Peninsula Master's Milk", with the "Shi Family" as the protagonist, the story uses their lives in the Peninsula and various interesting things to show the public the distinct family concept and mode of getting along, and let the audience understand this interesting city and social ecology from the animation.
"Food Alumni Association" Lin Shuji
Macau | 2018 | 3’ | Cantonese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles
Anthony, the Portuguese Tart class leader of the Food Alumni Association, after receiving the ultimate award, met the old classmates to hold a celebration party, but no one attended the meeting, so they went out to visit the old friends, but found that...
"White Rabbit Boy and Crocodile Girl" Shum Jianheng
Macau | 2018 | 5’
When the boy went to the science museum with his parents, he saw a man and a woman making love, and he was simply frightened, at this time, the girl who had just been making love came, the boy gave her a white rabbit candy, and the girl smiled at him kindly...
Macau Short Film
"Boring Play", "Illegal", "GDP: Grandmas' Dangerous Project"
2017, 2018 | 106' | Macau | Cantonese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | Cantonese and Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | Color, black and white2019-07-16 19: 30
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"Boring Drama" Ouyang Yongfeng
Macau | 2017 | 63’ | Cantonese and Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles
Yinghong, Lily and Ah Chen meet in a concert. Out of boredom, they were destined to become friends. Because of loneliness, they warmed each other. Whenever it is night, they play everywhere in the night, selling drunk and running wildly, alcohol is their faith, smoking a cigarette to play the real self. The only way to live in a city that is extremely boring is to be more boring than it. Until one day, the appearance of Yoko (Tatsu's ex-girlfriend) changes their relationship, and Ah Chen makes a youthful revenge for this. For them, youth is nothing more than a boring play, and only this one.
"Illegal" Lin Jianjun
Macau | 2017 | 26’ | Cantonese and Mandarin dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles
Two people who illegally went to Macao to work: a land worker, a first floor Andi Feng, a legal amendment, a fine, the two lives, money, and a way out overlapped.
G.D.P.: Grandmas' Dangerous Project by Huang Xiaoya
Macau | 2018 | 22’ | B | Cantonese dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles
The three mothers-in-law, who are over seventy years old, begin to lose hope in the last life of their lives, so they have a crazy idea together, they want to conspire to do a big thing that can make them break the law and go to prison, so that they don't have to worry about their future life. This crazy and dangerous plan allows them to regain the meaning of life, and in the end, whether they can succeed...
Closing film
Experimental period drama "Flowers Under the Bodhi Tree"
"Flowers Under the Bodhi Tree" By Lida. Gomes
2019 | 136' | Portugal | Portuguese and German dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles | colored
This experimental period drama is adapted from the short story "Portuguese Woman" by Olidi writer Robert Muzier. In war-torn Europe, Sir Angerton marries a beautiful Portuguese woman and brings her back to his home in Italy, but he immediately goes to war, while the "Portuguese woman" (she has no name in the play) insists on returning to her hometown, and rumors spread that she is a pagan...
——Cultural Center Small Theater 2019-07-17 19:30——
Pre-screening lecture speaker: Guest curator Xu Kuangci introduced the trend of Portuguese films.
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