Category: Documentary

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Tália

Natália is a 75 year old portuguese craftswoman, who struggles to maintain the art of the bulrush mats. Ever since her early days, in a time and place that knew no abundance, the bulrush was a central piece of a simple way of living. Her life and her craft intertwine and blend in a magic realism documentary.

Director: Pedro Cruz, David Gomes

Runtime: 25 minutes 42 seconds

Country of Origin: Portugal

Country of Filming: Portugal

Language: Portuguese

Subtitles: No

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Pedro Cruz, David Gomes

David Gomes and Pedro Cruz are a directing duo from Portugal. They’ve won best short film at the Festival Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira 2018, Portugal as well as an honorable mention at Caminhos do Cinema Português 2017, Portugal with the docudrama Vou-me Despedir do Rio / Farewell to the River. They ‘ve just finished a new docudrama short, Tália, while working in a new documentary on refugees, with the University of Coimbra.

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Knowledge from the earth

The film “Des savoirs de la terre” (Knowledge from the earth) questions our relationship with the living world through the traditional uses of plants, which are food, remedies or spiritual protectors. Cape Verdean inhabitants and two ethnobotanists from the Occitane region testify to the links they have with plants through local rituals and gathering practices before alerting us to the disappearance of this cultural heritage. This documentary calls on us to reappropriate confiscated local knowledge in order to rethink our way of living in our territory.

Director: Lola Keraron , Anne Ratsimba

Runtime: 26 minutes 28 seconds

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: Cape Verde, France

Language: French, Portuguese

Subtitles: English

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Lola Keraron

Lola Keraron is an AgroParisTech engineer, specialised in politcal ecology and director of the documentary series PAMacée. She became interested in medicinal plants when she entered engineering school. She joined a student project that took her to Senegal to train women in the cultvaton of annual mugwort, a plant with ant-malarial propertes. In 2019, as part of a year’s break, she and another agronomy student are creatng a web series enttled PAMacée with the aim of questoning our Western concepton of health and revaluing local knowledge about medicinal plants.
In a concern for ecological coherence, the apprentce director embarked on a sailing boat to Senegal and the health crisis led her to stay in Cape Verde for four months. She lived with local people and interviewed farmers, therapists, doctors and breeders who treat people with plants. On her return to France, she fnished her studies and trained as a journalist with the independent media Bastamag, which is commited to ecological and social issues. Since October 2021, she has dedicated herself to the directon and producton of the PAMacée series and to other ecological commitments.

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Meraki

Meraki, from Greek, means to do something with all your soul, creativity and love. Create from the essence with passion in your heart. On this trail we learn how a director from the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, a local Island herbalist, a dance teacher and a dive instructor, rely on their day to day practice to connect with nature. Seeking balance in ever changing worlds we visit lessons from sea turtles, listen for the guiding rhythms of plants and travel immersed in the transformative power of dance.

Director: Gustavo Neves

Writer: Gustavo Neves

Producer: Violeta Laopa

Key Cast: Apostolia Papadamaki, Vangelis Vassalos, Dimitris Synodinos, Rania Spyropoulou

Runtime: 24 minutes 45 seconds

Country of Origin: Portugal

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: English

Subtitles: No

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Gustavo Neves

Editor, cinematographer, director, working on the production of travel and adventure cinema. Weaving stories about the Ocean and inspiring connection with nature. His work in film and photography has helped empower adventure and exploration projects from Portugal to the World.

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Heritales @ Cidade Preocupada (Casa Branca – Portugal (23rd of June 2022)

Heritales in the Village of Casa Branca (PT)

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, Cidade Preocupada with the intention of taking the cinema to the nearby village of Casa Branca.

 

PROJECTED FILMS

Knowlwdge from the Earth

More Info about this film here

Meraki

More Info about this film here

Tália

More info about this film here

Urban Orishas

More Info about this film here

  • Target Audience: General public, families, children, adults, seniors,
  • Day: 23rd of June 2022
  • Time: 21
  • Duration: 90min
  • Location: Casa Branca
  • Presence of the director: to be confirmed
  • Registration: No registration required
  • Extra Activities: Presentation and debate with Maria Zozaya & Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-Directors Heritales) Takis Sarantoupoulos (Programmer).

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

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Heritales @ Teatro do Recreio Desportivo da Trafaria (Casino) (21st of January 2022)

Cinema in the Casino

Heritales starts the new year with a new appointment of the “Cinema in the Casino” with  an event in collaboration between various local associations. It will to bring you an amazing documentary projected in our first edition of the festival.

The result of more than 100 interviews and 250 hours of filming, the Documentary “Mar de Sines” is a film project centered in the perpetual connection of the local community of Sines with the sea.It assembles the testimonies of three generations of fishermen exposed to the rough temper of the of Portuguese south-west sea. Their knowledge of what the sea offers and claims in return.The Sines community is a melting pot of cultures, nationalities and generations and the perfect set to find the protagonists of a traditional kind of fishing that still respects the natural resources as part of an ancestral legacy. The film portraits the fishing harbor of Sines and its people and travels along to meet the territory of the last fishermen using the raft of “São Torpes”, the landscape of the shellfish gatherers that inhabit the rocky cliffs, and reality of the high-sea fishermen.
Directed by Diogo Vilhena, produced and assisted by António Campos, “Mar de Sines” strives to combine an historical and ethnographical perspective with an aesthetical approach. The original soundtrack was composed by Charlie Mancini and had the collaboration of several local musicians. The script’s structure was based on the work of Francisco Luís Lopes, “Breve Notícia de Sines” and depicts a resilient community that continues to live from the sea activity.

Assistent director:   ·  António Campos (II)

Original Music :   ·  Charlie Mancini

Production:   ·  Câmara Municipal de Sines

Productor:   ·  António Campos (II)

Direction:   ·  Diogo Vilhena

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/171569503

Please join us in this magic Friday night on one of the most beautiful setting of the Lisbon region. The old Casino of Trafaria, on the river Tagus will host this event and it will welcome you in its beautiful renewed premise.

https://rdtcasino.pt/

  • Target Audience: General public, families, children, adults, seniors,
  • Day: 21st of January 2022
  • Time: 21.30
  • Duration: 75min
  • Location: Teatro do Recreio Desportivo da Trafaria (Portugal)
  • Registration: No registration, free entry but limited sopaces available
  • Presence of the director: Yes
  • Extra Activities: Presentation by Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-director Heritales)
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Heritales @ Teatro do Recreio Desportivo da Trafaria (Casino) (17th of December 2021)

Cinema in the Casino

Heritales open a new cinema cicle in the Casino da Trafaria, for the first appointmet we will project the work of our awarded director João Meirinhos. An amazing night with  3 documentaries that will take us to the magic land of Alentejo (Portugal).

Transmutation – The beat of the past looms  seeks to trigger social awareness regarding the disappearance of hand weaving in the Alentejo region of Portugal. It also serves as a portrait about the last weavers still working today using experimental methods of film making, sound composition and ethnographic storytelling.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/418864398

Original soundscape: Mestre André
Production: Tânia C. Neves & Nova Tradição
Film and final edit work: João Meirinhos

O Museu da Dona Violante
At the village of Barradas, on the edge between the Portuguese regions of Alentejo and Algarve, we found Dona Violante’s peculiar museum of arts, crafts and awe. A simple conversation that gained wings and touched so many relevant subjects about the overwhelming pace of nowadays.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/MnPt3aBb4YI

Screenings:
– Cinema no Estendal 2020
– PRÉMIO, Melhor filme Documentário no 3o. Festival e Mostra de Audiovisual NUPEPA/ImaRgens, ICNOVA/LAPS
– 3in1 Film Fest, 2021.

Pano da Terra
NOVA TRADIÇÃO presents the ethnographic documentary: “PANO DA TERRA” by João Meirinhos and Tânia C. Neves
A film about the latest weavers and spinners from Vila de Mértola, Reguengos de Monsaraz and the village of São Pedro de Sólis.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/209522569

 

Please join us in this magic Friday night on one of the most beautiful setting of the Lisbon region. The old Casino of Trafaria, on the river Tagus will host this event and it will welcome you in its beautiful renewed premise.

https://rdtcasino.pt/

  • Target Audience: General public, families, children, adults, seniors,
  • Day: 17th of December 2021
  • Time: 21.00
  • Duration: 75min
  • Location: Teatro do Recreio Desportivo da Trafaria (Portugal)
  • Registration: Mandatory registration, please send  an email to: rdt.casino@gmail.com
  • Presence of the director: Yes
  • Extra Activities: Presentation by d  Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-director Heritales)
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Heritales @ SHE – Evora – Portugal (11th of November 2021)

I’m Burning

Renaissance, a challenge. The artistic project of the Valencian creators Miguel Arraiz and David Moreno, will cross the Atlantic to establish synergies with the most important ephemeral art event in the world, the Burning Man in the Nevada desert.

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, students, researchers.
  • Day: 11th of November 2021
  • Time: 21.00
  • Duration: 54 min + debate
  • Location: Sociedade Harminia Eborense –  Evora
  • Presence of the director: no
  • Registration: Not necessary but preferred
  • Extra Activities: Film projection followed by debate with M. Zozaya , Takis, Fernando Mendes.

Andreu Signes Pérez

Andreu Signes holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication. He began his professional career in RTVV (Radio Televisión Valenciana) in different programs such as Tela Marinera, Fem Tele, Tómbola, Colp d’ull, sports and cultural broadcasts, work that he combined with graphic work in different art departments for films. Creator of the graphic design studio Aptitude Lab, specialized in web works and interactive video design, where he worked for 5 years.
Later he joined the team of the virtual studio of RTVV, where he worked for two and a half years, coordinating the team and directing the continuity of the channel 24/9 broadcast (24-hour news). During those years, he combines work with the direction of photography of short films and documentaries, some of which have been awarded at the Mostra de València. In 2011 he joined the audiovisual production company Barret as a member, and that is when he began his career as a producer, graphic designer and camera for transmedia documentaries for television and the internet, such as “Les Veus de la Memoria” on the effect of music therapy in Alzheimer’s patients that was broadcast on Documentos TV, interactive RTVE and RTVV; or the webdoc “catacombes.com”, an interactive documentary that explores the other side of Paris in the underground 30 meters below ground. He has also directed and produced the documentary for TV3, #NosaltresElsValencians, the television program “Un Pais de Llibre” and has worked as an art, graphics and camera director in the two seasons of the TV3 program, “Cosins Germans”. He also designed the webdoc “0responsables.com” and produced the documentary about the València subway accident in 2006, “La estrategia del silencio” He currently works as an interactive video designer at the Valencian startup PlayFilm, developing an advanced technology program for the creation of interactive videos. His last documentary work “I’m burning”. A personal project in which he has recorded for three years the project of artists Miguel Arraiz and David Moreno

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Heritales @ Residências Refúgio Festival Lisboa (1st of October 2021)

Heritales at the Residências Refúgio Festival

On Friday night at the Residências Refúgio festival, Heritales will once again propose the film Migrante, winner of the animation category with presentation of the award at the Monstra 2020 Festival. “MIGRANT” is an animated short film with a powerful message in favor of migration , built from real testimonies that were animated by more than 50 animators from 11 Latin American countries and produced by ANIMA LATINA. Each of the 30 segments that make up the short film is brought to the screen through the unique style of each animator. Latin American cultural diversity will be represented through the heterogeneity of proposals, transforming “Migrant” into a true animated mosaic.

https://residenciasrefugio.pt/

  • Target Audience: General public, families, children, adults, seniors,
  • Day: 1st of October 2021
  • Time: 21.00
  • Duration: 75min
  • Location: Quartel GNR, Largo Cabeço da Bola, Intendente, Lisboa (Portugal)
  • Registration: Not necessary
  • Presence of the director: Online
  • Extra Activities: Presentation by d  Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-director Heritales)
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Heritales @ Teatro do Recreio Desportivo da Trafaria (Casino) (1st of October 2021)

Cinema in the Casino

Following the success of the last edition of the festival even with a reduced accessibility due to the pandemic situation, Heritales re-propose an amazing film which was projected during last edition of the festival.

Brazilian Palestine is a documentary that shows the communities born of the nakba – the Arabic word whose meaning is catastrophe or disaster – seek, in the diaspora, full integration and a new citizenship in Brazil.

Please join us in this magic Friday night on one of the most beautiful setting of the Lisbon region. The old Casino of Trafaria, on the river Tagus will host this event and it will welcome you in its beautiful renewed premise.

https://rdtcasino.pt/

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  • Target Audience: General public, families, children, adults, seniors,
  • Day: 1st of October 2021
  • Time: 21.30
  • Duration: 75min
  • Location: Teatro do Recreio Desportivo da Trafaria (Portugal)
  • Registration: Mandatory registration, please send  an email to: rdt.casino@gmail.com
  • Presence of the director: Online
  • Extra Activities: Presentation by d  Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-director Heritales)
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Heritales @ SHE – Evora – Portugal (9th of June 2021)

Sociedade Harmonia Eborense & Heritales,  “AWARD CERIMONY OF THE HERITALES 2020 PUBLIC AWARD”

Next June 9th, the Heritales 2020 Public Prize will be awarded at the Sociedade Harmonia Eborense. It will begin with the offerng of the statuette to Isabela Galante. The “Best by audience” award is a sculpture made by the Russian artist Lola Sementsova within the framework of the Ceramics and Glass department of the Universidade das Belas Artes de Lisboa (Vicarte).

It will be followed by the projection of the winning film «Edu´ Active», recorded in five different countries by the Brazilian artist Galante. It focuses on public and private teaching initiatives to change traditional teaching systems. It proposes to rethink the role of the school in the current society and the role of students in the same society, in order to be linked to the new needs of society.

To conclude the session, a debate will take place with the director of this documentary. In this session she brings together science and culture, the entire public is welcome, and especially people with interests in new didactic perspectives, whether for particular reasons as professionals. So, this is the moment to ask the lecturer if he would change anything from the educational centers he attended, and we encourage her to share his perspectives at this meeting sponsored by Heritales, a festival that seeks to promote didactic forms linked to art and interdisciplinary.

About the artists of the Heritales 2020 awards, which were awarded at the ceremony held at the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon.

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  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 9 of June 2021
  • Time: 18.00
  • Duration: 90min
  • Location : Sociedade Harminia Eborense –  Evora
  • Registration: Only members of SHE. It is possible to register for membership
  • Notes: Film projection followed by debate with thedirector Isabella Galante moderate  by M. Zozaya , Takis, Fernando Mendes