Trazas

as cidades e as Trocas

Wednesday, March 15 at 10.00 p.m. Teatro Principal

2014 | 138 min | Portugal

Directors: Luísa Homem, Pedro Pinho

Edition and cinematography: Pedro Pinho, Luísa Homem

Sound: Raquel Marques, Rita Hermínio

In 2008, the growing tourism industry of Cape Verde was frozen. The building of many hotels and resorts by foreign companies had to be stopped due to a shortage of sand. The sand industry, the primary resource for the production of concrete, had reached a dramatic level, endangering the beaches. This event caused a huge euphoria among the businessmen of Mauritania. A great number of trucks started to flow to the Nouakchott port, where many boats sailed out to feed the tourist constructions in Cape Verde. Trading Cities starts in Lisbon on a cargo ship. We will undertake an Atlantic route that re‐enacts these daily travels, in order to highlight the physical and social transformations in the landscape that these exchanges produce.

Al-Sandawich

Friday, March 17 at 8.30 p.m. Numax

1975 I 12 min I Egypt

Director: Atteyat Al Abnoudy

Edition: Ateyyat El-Abnoudy, Magdi Kamel

Cinematography: Maher Radi

Sound: Magdi Kamel

In the village of Abnoud, children play and prepare a meal. Atteyat al-Abnoudi films the joy and simplicity of the daily life of a small rural town that seems to have escaped the passage of time.

The Conwy Crossing

Friday, March 17 at 8.30 p.m. Numax

1991 | 39 min | United Kingdom

Directors: Stephen Hewitt, David Shaw

Cinematography: John Lawson Reay

Sound: Barbara Lawson Reay

Music: Nigel Bells

Reporter: Timothy Evans

Built in 1991, the longest tunnel in all of Wales, which carries the road under the River Conwy, was the first of its kind in the UK. The work, which cost more than £140 million, was promoted by the government as “a new link in a golden chain” of a road network to ensure the prosperity of North Wales.

Guías turísticas satánicas: Polígono de Coia

Friday, March 17 at 8.30 p.m. Numax

2013 | 9 min | Galicia

Director: Vicisitud y Sordidez

Accompanied by his parents, the author walks through the Vigo neighborhood of Coia, an example of Franco’s urban planning of the late 1960s that combines the brutalism of the blocks of buildings with the traces of rural remains and the insertion around them on the city’s ring road. The conversation between them chronicles the political, urban and human evolution of a neighborhood with a working-class and marginal reputation.