A CINEMA OF THE EXTRA-ORDINARY

SILENCES

Original title : SILÊNCIOS

First screening in Canada

By : CÉSAR PEDRO

2022 | 24 min | VOSTA
Country of origin of director : Portugal
Country of production : Portugal
Country of recording : Angola
SYNOPSIS :

Uíge, Angola. Inside a Portuguese catholic seminar, different forms of silence are experienced. A place inhabited by multiple sonorities and images that wander from nature and meditation to colonial impressions.

Selected at DocLisboa International Film Festival (2022).

BIOGRAPHY

Filmmaker working mainly with documentary and experimental film, music, and theatre. Author of several films in both Vilnius and Guimarães’ European Capital of Culture. As a finalist of the Inov-Art programme in Mozambique he directed his first feature film Casa Velha. Currently teaches in film and multimedia departments in several institutions and is finishing a MFA in Multimedia Art at Lisbon Fine Arts University with the short-film Silences.

Free admission subject to availability of seats

Tuesday May 9th, from 5:30 pm

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY – VA-114

1395 Boulevard René-Lévesque O, Montréal, QC H3G 2M5

Films of May 9th