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NOCTURNE FOR A FOREST

Catarina Vasconcelos
Portugal, 2023
16 min.

In the 15th century, in Portugal, a group of Catholic monks build a wall around a forest and prevent the entry of women.

We know from her remarkable debut, The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020), that Catarina Vasconcelos’ cinema is one of pictorial and meticulous frames guided by the voices of narrators. In Nocturne for a Forest, the filmmaker draws on Baroque aesthetics, particularly those of Portuguese painter Josefa d’Obidios, to depict the story of a papal monastery that threatened any woman who crossed its stone boundary with excommunication. In a playful manner, the film explores both the millennia-old exclusion of women from the church and the forms of gnosis safeguarded by the institution, as much as the debates and re-evaluations surrounding historical cultural heritage in recent years, via a dialogic flourish (sic!) reminiscent of Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights. (Flavia Dima).

Data proiecție și locație

Thursday, 28th of September | 18:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Catarina Vasconcelos

Catarina Vasconcelos is a Portuguese filmmaker born in Lisbon. Her debut film, Metaphor or Sadness Inside Out, premiered in 2014 at the 36th Cinema du Réel in Paris, where it was distinguished as the Best Short Film of the International Competition. Her feature documentary debut, The Metamorphosis of Birds, premiered in 2020 at the 70th Berlinale Encounters program where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize, the first of 40 international distinctions.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • CAST: Paula Guedes
  • SCRIPT: Catarina Vasconcelos
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Paulo Menezes
  • SOUND: Miguel Martins, Miguel Diogo
  • EDITING: Francisco Moreira
  • ​PRODUCTION: Pedro Fernandes Duarte, Primeira Idade
  • PRODUCED BY: Primeira Idade

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