Primeiro festival de cinema português
City:
Moscow
Cinemas:
35mm
Dates:
4–7 July 2012
Это Земля, не Луна
É na terra não é na lua
Country: Portugal
Year: 2011
Director: Gonçalo Tocha
Genre: documentary
Language: Portuguese
Translation: russian subtitles
Time: 3 hours 3 minutes
Возраст: +
A cameraman and a soundman arrive in Corvo in 2007, the smallest island in the archipelago of the Azores. Right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Corvo is a large rock, 6km high and 4km long, with the crater of a volcano and a single tiny village of 440 people. Gradually, this small filming crew is accepted by the island’s population as its new inhabitants, two people to add to a civilization almost 500 years old, whose history is hardly discernible, such is the lack of records and written memories. Shot at a vertiginous pace throughout a few years, self‐produced between arrivals, departures and coming‐backs, “It’s the Earth not the Moon” develops as the logbook of a ship, and turns out as a patchwork of discoveries and experiences, which follow the contemporary life of a civilization isolated in the middle of the sea. A long atlantic film‐odissey, divided in 14 chapters, that combines anthropological records, literature, lost archives, mythological and autobiographical stories.
Awards and festivals:
Madrid Documentary Film Festival - First Prize
San Francisco International Film Festival - Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary
Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival - Best Cine del Futuro Film
Locarno International Film Festival - Filmmakers of the Present Programme: Special Mention
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival - participation
Vancouver International Film Festival - participation
Vienna International Film Festival - participation
Jeonju International Film Festival - participation
Schedule:
7 July, Saturday