Festa do Cinema Francês

French cinema is celebrated at the Teatro Rivoli from November 7th to 12th! The biopic Simone - A Viagem do Século was the film chosen for the opening session. The work tells the story of French politics, Simone Veil, who shook her time for defending a humanist message of ravishing actuality. The programme also has school and family sessions, presenting a selection of fiction and animation films, to discover the seventh art from an early age. In the city of Porto, the festival extends to Cinema Trindade from 10 to 15 November and to Cinema NOS Alameda from 17 to 20 November.

PROGRAMME

7/11 mon

20:30 – Simone - A Viagem do Século (Opening Session)
Simone Veil's fate, her childhood, her political struggles, her tragedies. The epic and intimate portrait of a woman with an unusual path, who shook her time for defending a humanist message of impassioned current.

8/11 tue

10:30 – O Menino Nicolau - A Felicidade Não Pode Esperar (school session)
Leaning over a large blank sheet of paper, Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny bring little Nicolau to life. As the narrative progresses, Nicolau enters the workshop of his creators and hears from them about their journeys, their secrets, their childhoods and about this creative friendship…

14:30 – Adeus Senhor Haffmann (school session)
Paris, 1942. François Mercier is a man who just aspires to start a family with Blanche. He is also an employee of the jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. Faced with the German occupation, the two men will have to conclude an agreement that will upset the fate of the three characters.

9/11 wed

10:30 – Fahim (school session)
Fahim, a chess ace from Bangladesh, leaves the country with his father for Paris. To obtain political asylum, the only option is to become champion of France.

10/11 thu

10:30 – As Aventuras de Lia (school session)
Lia, a young orphan, lives on the streets of Mist City and steals food from the castle of Prince Regent Tristan, who wants to take the throne. Lia then disguises herself as a princess and embarks on a delirious mission to rescue Roland, the heir to the throne, in the meantime transformed into a galigato, half chicken, half cat.

15:00 – Adeus Rapazes (school session)
1944, Julien is a student at a Catholic boarding school. There, he befriends Jean, a newly arrived student, proud and reserved. But then one day the Gestapo invaded the school and arrested Father Jean and the three Jewish children he had hidden among his Catholic students.

11/11 fri

10:30 – O Meu Verão em Provença (school session)
Marseille, July 1905. Young Marcel Pagnol is about to enter the lycée. But first, he enjoys a long vacation in the hills of Aubagne and Allauch. There, he meets his friend Lili, with whom he shares new adventures and secrets. (Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's Time of Secrets).

15:00 – O Menino Nicolau - A Felicidade Não Pode Esperar (school session)
Leaning over a large blank sheet of paper, Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny bring little Nicolau to life. As the narrative progresses, Nicolau enters the workshop of his creators and hears from them about their journeys, their secrets, their childhoods and about this creative friendship…

12/11 sat

14:00 – Edmond
In December 1897, Edmond Rostand offers a new play to Constant Coquelin, although it has not yet been written. Ignoring everyone around him, Edmond begins to write the play that no one believes and for which he has only the title: "Cyrano de Bergerac".

18:00 – A Cruzada
Abel, Marianne and their 13-year-old son Joseph live together in Paris. The couple discover that Joseph has secretly sold valuables to fund an ecological project and realize that hundreds of children around the world have plans to save the planet.

Programme available at www.festadocinemafrances.com.