Agenda Municipal / Movies Daughters of Fire + Bones
Casa das Artes | Small auditorium - 21h45
General admission: 4 euros | Students: 2 euros | Free for Joane Film Club members
Daughters of Fire
Portugal, 2023 | Directed by Pedro Costa | Cast: Alice Costa, Elizabeth Pinard, Karyna Gomes | Rating: M/12 | Duration: 9 min
Three sisters are separated by the eruption of the Pico do Fogo volcano in Cape Verde. Pedro Costa builds a penetrating portrait of these women (played by singers Elizabeth Pinard, Alice Costa and Karyna Gomes) whose faces the eruption illuminates in its poignant song: one day we will know why we live and why we suffer.
Bones
Portugal/ France, 1997 | Directed by Pedro Costa | Cast: Inês de Medeiros, Nuno Vaz, Vanda Duarte, Mariya Lipkina, Zita Duarte | Rating: M/16 | Running time: 90 min
Ossos is a minimalist drama set in the Creole neighbourhood of Estrela d'África in Lisbon. Tina gives birth in hospital, returns home and immediately switches on the gas. Tina's boyfriend, also a teenager, rescues the child, wraps it in a rubbish bag and goes out on the street begging. After a failed attempt to sell the child, the boy leaves the baby with a nurse, and later with a young prostitute. Meanwhile, Tina and her best friend, Clotilde, try to recover the child. The baby will survive.