João Rui Guerra da Mata
2021China, China
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Jialiang Chen, Luís Rafael Chen
China walks towards the Lisbon district of Martim Moniz. In its wake, the children shout: China! China! China will leave at dawn, will fly away. Just wants to be happy. But drinking her own poison without leaving a drop. Sometimes the air is laden with iniquity and purgatory is a kindergarten...
China, China
Alvorada Vermelha
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
The Red Market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary universe but also beautiful and intriguing. Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata’s camera emerges like a driving force giving us the exact balance between what exists and what we see.
Red Dawn
A Última Vez Que Vi Macau
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Cindy Scrash, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Part memoir, part city symphony, part noir-ish B-movie adventure, the new feature from critically acclaimed film-making duo João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata (To Die Like a Man) is a sensual, shape-shifting ode to one of the world's most mythic, alluring and exoticized cities.
The Last Time I Saw Macao
IEC Long
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also known as China cracker. Who inhabits the ancient IEC Long firecracker factory?
IEC Long
O Fantasma
João Pedro Rodrigues
Ricardo Meneses, Beatriz Torcato
Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.
O Fantasma
Onde Fica Esta Rua?
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Isabel Ruth
From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz impro from a score written in 1963.
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After
Parabéns!
João Pedro Rodrigues
João Rui Guerra da Mata, Eduardo Sobral
Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing “Happy Birthday” to him on his answering machine. When João wakes up in bed next to him, he realizes that this is not his typical birthday.
Happy Birthday!
Mahjong
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues
Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese dress. The confrontation between the East Wind and the Red Dragon; the cardinal points switched as in an ultimate Mahjong game.
Mahjong
Aqui, em Lisboa
Gabriel Abrantes, Marie Losier
Francisca Castillo, Carloto Cotta
Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.
Here in Lisbon
L'oiseau de la nuit
Marie Losier
Deborah Krystal, Cindy Scrash
Mysterious portrait of Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente, where he has been performing every night over thirty years in golden dresses. Under the layers of his colorful fabrics, the many skins of Fernando are revealed, letting Lisbon’s legends come to life. Alternately woman mermaid, female birds, woman lion, we are taken into the desires and dreams of metamorphosis and myths.
L'Oiseau de la Nuit
Um Quarto na Cidade
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
A game of references and a tribute to director Jacques Demy. It’s also an opportunity for the two directors to recall Demy’s A Room in Town (the film’s namesake) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and the importance these movies had for them.
A Room in Town