Movies: Joana Ferreira

  • 2011
    Eden's Ark

    Eden's Ark (2011)

    Eden's Ark

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    Eden's Ark is a journey through the dramatic, chaotic, precarious world of botany and film preservation. A journey in danger and poetry, across the ice and the tropics, following adventurers and preservers, and confronting what we lose and save....

    Eden's Ark
  • 2018
    The Frog and the Girl

    The Frog and the Girl (2018)

    The Frog and the Girl

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    Adaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga». The laundry room is closed and a young woman (Rita Cabaço) has to learn how to wash clothes by hand with the wise Deolinda (Isabel Ruth), who tells h...

    The Frog and the Girl
  • 2017
    Dom Fradique

    Dom Fradique (2017)

    Dom Fradique

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    A path for tourists on their way to the Castle of São Jorge, the Pátio Dom Fradique was once a popular courtyard where around sixty families used to live.Today, ruins of their houses are the unique remains.There, the erased memories of the old city h...

    Dom Fradique
  • 2017
    Encontro Silencioso

    Encontro Silencioso (2017)

    Encontro Silencioso

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    Bound by a silent pact, five students make a secret trip to the country for what seems to be an initiation ceremony. In threatening landscapes and abandoned ruins, they submit to the strange rituals of their leader, the Dux....

    Encontro Silencioso
  • 2019
    Unskinned

    Unskinned (2019)

    Unskinned

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    Portrait of a tannery in Beira Alta and of its workers. The film follows the lives of Carla and Lúcia, the only female workers left after the departure of Patrícia, whose disappearance is the subject of much talk among the workers and serves as a met...

    Unskinned
  • 2018
    The Secret of the Closed House

    The Secret of the Closed House (2018)

    The Secret of the Closed House

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    On the riverside quay of the enormous container port of Lisbon two old decaying sky-blue painted buildings are located directly opposite to each other. One is closed and abandoned, the other inhabited by the two bright and inquisitive girls Ana and M...

    The Secret of the Closed House
  • 2016
    How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras

    How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras (2016)

    How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras

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    In Sarajevo, in a cinema’s projection booth, lives Sena; a woman who in daily solitude repeats the projection of the few Yugoslavian films of which there are copies. Through a combination of silence, the everyday gestures of this woman and the films ...

    How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras
  • 2009
    Mãe Fátima

    Mãe Fátima (2009)

    Mãe Fátima

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    This documentary follows a 70 years old, Angolan nurse on a nearly impossible humanitarian mission into her home country. In a southern region that was specially affected by the long lasting, recent civil war, the local hospital has to be restructure...

    Mãe Fátima
  • 2020
    C For Coffee

    C For Coffee (2020)

    C For Coffee

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    “C for Coffee” is a series of informal conversations between directors, about cinema, around a coffee table. The eight conversations, which form the four episodes of the series, took place during the Porto/Post/Doc, Punto de Vista, IndieLisboa and Cu...

    C For Coffee
  • 2020
    Sonho de um Verão

    Sonho de um Verão (2020)

    Sonho de um Verão

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    Certain moments seem to stretch time differently, lingering in our minds longer than others do. They can be a positive memory, of a peaceful afternoon on the beach, or a negative one, like the helplessness that comes with a moment of uncertainty. In...

    Sonho de um Verão