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Heritales in the Village

The CineClube & Municipal Theater of Montemor-o-Novo in partnership with the Festival Heritales, are joining this year at the event of th  Oficina do Convento, Preoccupada with the intention of taking the cinema to the nearby village of Casa Branca.
What is the importance of a look, what is the interest of reflecting and questioning the ideas of heritage of inheritance and identity. What we want as future. These are some of the questions that come up when we find places like the Casa Branca. Places built for specific functions, places that were inhabited, lived and left memories, now forgotten and lost in their insignificance, before the needs of today’s society. However, a new look and a new perception, together with the will to make happen, rediscovering needs to the detriment of uselessness and apathy, results in the rebirth, the reinterpretation of spaces and people, functions and memories to transform what seems illusory doomed at last, in a new possibility of life.
It is with this idea in our head and heart that we will exhibit films. With the purpose of inspiring the community exactly for this fight against desertification, against abandonment, against lowering the arms before the unlikely possibility of victory of the collective will and effort. The cinema is also a form of struggle, of passing the message, of contributing, changing for the better our lives, and the places we go.
If the song is a weapon of intervention, cinema is the action that complements it. (traslation from the website Oficinas do Convento)

• Target Audience: General public, families, children, adults, seniors,
• Day: 18th of July 2019
  
• Time: 21.30
  
• Duration: 90min
  
• Location: Casa Branca
  
• Presence of the director: Yes
  
• Registration: No registration required
  
• Extra Activities: Presentation and debate with Nicola Schiavottiello co-director Heritales.

More Info o the website of the Festival Preocupada de Montemor-o-Novo

Spirit in the concrete

Ntuthuko goes home, from Johannesburg to the Vaal, in the exploration of spiritual healing and the relevance of practising in today’s society through his mother, Makhambule, and sister, Fundisile. This leads them to conversations of the family’s past that were never had and some forgotten.
Ntuthuko tells the tale of African spirituality from a sangoma’s son perspective and a young person who is living in this turbulent modern age trying to preserve a heritage that most have lost.

• Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors
• Day: 13th of June 2019
  
• Time: 22.00
  
• Duration: 16 min  + debate
  
• Location: Sociedade Harmonia Eborense – Évora
  
• Presence of the director: Video-conference
  
• Registration: Not necessary but limited spaces available
  
• Extra Activities: Presence of the directors of Heritales  Maria Zozaya and Nicola Schiavottiello. Presentation of the award ceremony on the 28th of June 2019

Kabadio – Time goes by slowly, barefoot

A deep dive into a new world, filled with rituals, music, magic, secrets, fascinating images and stories of real people who struggle to survive, keeping their traditions in the midst of a civil war and the smuggling of goods.
In the heart of Casamance (southern region of Senegal), a small Muslim village, which is a sort of mystical island protected by religious leaders called Marabus, the sound of drums lights the fire, dictating the fate of an uncertain future, where mysticism is the only protective shield.
We are in front of a large mirror. The mirror of the soul. Where you can touch the blowing wind; where you can feel the dried land under your feet just a few kilometers from the sea. Where you hear enlightened children’s laughing, spreading hope for those able to get close to them. Where time goes by slowly, barefoot.

• Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors
  
• Day: 30th of May 2019
  
• Time: 21.00
  
• Duration: 90 min + debate
  
• Location: Casa do Brasil (Lisboa)
  
• Presence of the director: Video-conference
  
• Registration: No registration required but limited space available
  
• Extra Activities: Presentation and debate with Nicola Schiavottiello co-director Heritales.

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