SPECIAL SESSIONS 2021
>> CHILDREN`S PANORAMA
D’ARTACÃO E OS TRÊS MOSCÃOTEIROS: O FILME
(Portuguese Version)
Toni García, Spain, Animation, Adventure, M/6, 2021, 84'
10th october _ sunday _ 11am
Casa Municipal da Cultura de Seia _ Cineteatro
“The Adventures of D’Artacão and the Three Musketeers”, a famous Japanese-Spanish animated series from the early 1980s that anthropomorphized the characters from the Three Musketeers stories by Alexandre Dumas, arrives at the cinema in a 3D adaptation. It focuses on D’Artacão, who wants to join the Musketeers and ends up having to defend, alongside them, France against Cardinal Richelieu’s plans.
CROODS – UMA NOVA ERA
(Portuguese Version)
Joel Crawford, USA, Animation, Comedy, Adventure, M/6, 2020, 95’
16th october _ saturday _ 11am
Casa Municipal da Cultura de Seia _ Cineteatro
After the events reported in the first film, the friendly Crood family forgets their fear and takes the risk of looking for a place where everyone can live in peace. In this search, they discover a paradisiacal place that gives them enormous hope for better days. However, they quickly realize that the Megamanos also live there, a family with habits and ideas quite different from their own, who consider themselves more evolved than any other. Coexistence is not completely peaceful until everyone realizes that they have to resolve a problem much more serious than small disputes between neighbors: Eep and Sol, the teenage daughters of the two clans who, in the meantime, have become best friends, decided to run away from home to discover the world.
>> DOCUMENTARY
O LAGO SAGRADO - Uma viagem por uma estrada profunda e gelada
Director: Carla Varanda
Production: Carla Varanda and Mário Lisboa
9th october _ saturday _ 6pm
Casa Municipal da Cultura de Seia _ Auditorium
A journey that takes us to the frozen world, a location blessed with both outstanding beauty and huge potential for scientific knowledge, which must be preserved and cared for. Mário Lisboa photographed the frozen lake, travelling 300 km around the it, at temperatures of between -15º C and -30º C. In this documentary he takes us through the journey, sharing the images captured, talking about the natural beauty of Lake Baikal and narrating some episodes of his adventure. Anastasia Tsvetkova, and Maxim Timofeyev talk about the potential of the lake, a unique natural resource, the deepest, the oldest and the largest quantity of freshwater in the world, and one of the richest natural and endemic ecosystems, as well as describing some ongoing projects for the protection and study of the lake. But climate change and human factors are a real threat to Lake Baikal, which must be minimised.
Taking this message to everyone interested in environmental issues and the study of natural habitats is our goal.
Debate at the and of the documentary, with the presence of de director and the producer
CURTIR A PELE
Inês Gil, Portugal, Documentary, 2019, 76’
15th october _ friday - 2:30pm
Casa Municipal da Cultura de Seia _ Auditorium
Portrait of a tannery in Portugal countryside 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 metaphor for the future of the factory after the economic crisis that stormed the country.
>> NATIONAL PREMIERE
I AM GRETA
Nathan Grossman, Sweden/USA/ Germany/United Kingdom, 2020, 101'
13th october _ wednesday _ 9:30pm
Casa Municipal da Cultura de Seia _ Cineteatro
Nathan Grossman began filming Greta at the beginning of her school strike in August 2018, before the first reports about the young woman were made. He continued to follow her until September 2019, after she crossed the Atlantic on a sailboat to speak at the United Nations climate summit. An emotional speech that inspired and continues to inspire thousands of young people and adults around the world who joined her in strikes and discussions about the future of the planet. The film also explores Greta's personal struggle to balance her adolescence with the attention and media coverage she currently receives.
LA CROISADE
Louis Garrel, France, Fiction, 2021, 67’
16th october _ saturday _ 9:30pm
Casa Municipal da Cultura de Seia _ Cineteatro
Abel and Marianne discover that their 13-year-old son, Joseph, has secretly sold his most precious possessions. They soon discover that Joseph isn't the only one - across the world, hundreds of children have joined forces to fund a mysterious project. Your mission is to save the planet.