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Marta Pessoa

Marta Pessoa

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Rosinha and Other Wild Animals (2023)

A film that scrutinizes the idea of "soft racism" and how it comes to drink from the exalted Portuguese colonialism. The titular Rosinha is a Guinean native who became the symbol of the first Portuguese colonial exhibition presented by the Estado Novo in 1 ...

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Um Nome Para o Que Sou (2022)

Between 1947 and 1949, the writer Maria Lamas traveled the country to publicize the reality in which Portuguese women lived. The result of this tour was the book "As Mulheres do Meu País". More than 70 years later, director Marta Pessoa and writer Susana ...

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Donzela Guerreira (2020)

Emilia is a writer, living in Lisbon in the year 1959. She is the "Damsel Warrior", a fictional woman composed from the literary universes of Maria Judite de Carvalho and Irene Lisboa, writers of the city and the characters that inhabit it. ...

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The Room You Take (2016)

We stare at mirrors as if 'image' was a weapon of self-defense. At night, I hide in actors' dressing rooms for a working class experience. By day, I face an old theatre being razed to the ground, making way for a parking lot. Graffitis have curtains, the n ...

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The Lurking Fear (2015)

"The Lurking Fear" interviews Portuguese citizens whose lives where hit by the torture of its fascist political police. ...

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Alto Bairro (2014)

In Lisbon 1950, John, 13, decides to invade the neighborhood of prostitutes, nobility and sailors, starting a new stage in his life. Today this neighborhood is reflected in a scattered public debate centered on its night life. ...

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Outra Forma de Luta (2014)

In early 1985, the writer Nuno Bragança hands his friend Carlos Antunes a 13 question's questionnaire; 13 sheets of graph paper, of which he offered the recto-verso of each for his friend to answer. The questions were about Carlos Antunes' personal and po ...

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Alentejo, Alentejo (2014)

Following international recognition of Fado, Portugal recently submitted to UNESCO the polyphonic songs of the Alentejo, known as Cante Alentejano, or just Cante, as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This film will be a journey into the hot Ale ...

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Guerra ou Paz (2014)

100,000 Portuguese young men left for war in the countrie's former colonies. In the same period, 100,000 fled the country so as to not be part of that war. What was the former's role in shaping Portugal? ...

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De Armas e Bagagens (2013)

What would you take with you if you had to leave home without knowing if you would come back? Between 1974 and 1976, nearly 300 thousand Portuguese had to leave Angola. More than 100 thousand were born there. This is the story of the incredible escapes fro ...

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Natália, a Diva Trágicómica (2011)

Documentary about the life of the lyric singer Natália de Andrade. ...

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Warriors (2011)

50 years after its beginning, it's still a delicate and hermetic subject today, based on an exclusively male speech, as if veterans were war's only owners and victims. When a country is at war though, is there anybody left out? Warriors is a generation's ...

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Lisboa Domiciliária (2010)

Documentary about the old people living in the highest floors of old buildings with no lifts, in Lisbon. ...

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Cova da Moura Island (2010)

In greater Lisbon area, the name Cova da Moura has never been synonymous with well-being, education or prosperity. on the contrary, it has always been associated with the idea of violence, insecurity, danger or, at best, with lack of education and sheer po ...

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Manual of Domestic Feeling (2008)

Woman seeks house to domesticate. Wants sensitive, versatile space, any age, with sense of humour. Offers availability of feelings. Has references. Schedule to be arranged. ...

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Letters to a Dictatorship (2006)

A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today the women who wrote these letters with the ghosts of the past, and revealing important archive material, Lett ...

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Fair Day (2004)

Dawn is breaking into day. Fair day. As in every year. But this is a year of mourning. "It doesn't look right!" Vera says to her sister. And her mother-in-law looks at her and remembers the dead son. Remembrance is a silence between the two of them. Childr ...

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Movies Starring Marta Pessoa (1)

Rosinha and Other Wild Animals (2023)

A film that scrutinizes the idea of "soft racism" and how it comes to drink from the exalted Portuguese colonialism. The titular Rosinha is a Guinean native who became the symbol of the first Portuguese colonial exhibition presented by the Estado Novo in 1 ...

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