Director, editor and producer Paulo Carneiro will present his new film, Savanna and the mountain, at the Cannes Film Festival 2024. The documentary has been selected for the Quinzaine des Cinéastes 2024, one of the parallel selections of this not-to-be-missed event in the world of cinema.
After the short film Water to Tabato in 2014 and his first feature-length documentary in 2018, Bostofrio où le ciel rejoint la Terre, here's the Portuguese director back with a documentary about his home country that follows the struggle of villagers fighting against the government that wants to extract lithium from their land.
Quinzaine des Cinéastes review: "Once upon a time, there was a revolution in a small Portuguese village. Savana e a montanha is a hybrid documentary in which villagers stage their own struggle - still going on today - against a government plan to extract lithium that threatens their land. It's a generous and funny film of resistance, a ballad in song, a rural western not unlike the cinema of Moullet or Guiraudie."
Cannes Film Festival 2024: Films selected for the Directors' Fortnight
Now it's the Quinzaine des Cinéastes' turn to unveil its 2024 selection, to be screened from May 15 to 25 during the Cannes Film Festival 2024. The 56th edition of this independent film event features 30 singular films that resist the dominant ideology. [Read more]
The Cannes Film Festival returns to the Croisette for its 77th edition from May 14 to 25, 2024. Click here for all the latest news and information! [Read more]
Cannes Film Festival 2024: Films selected for the Directors' Fortnight
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