Porto/Post/Doc: the experience you won't regret

Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival kicks off this coming weekend, on 23rd November. The festival is hosted at Rivoli, Cinema Passos Manuel and Porto Planetarium and it concludes on 1st December.

A special ambiance is coming to the Invicta, indeed; Porto/Post/Doc with performances, film screenings and talks on identity issues, contemporary society, the non-binary gender condition and the current geological era, known as Anthropocene.

The screening of the documentary "Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love", by Nick Broomfield, is scheduled for 23rd November, at 9.30pm, at Rivoli, in the scope of the programme Transmission, devoted to music and pop culture. This documentary chronicles the enduring love story between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen, from the early days in Greece to the time Leonard became famous.

The Porto/Post/Doc Festival brings the world in film with the usual International Competition and Competition Cinema Novo, featuring fiction that represents reality from Chile, Brazil, Spain, France, Germany and Japan.

Throughout the week, the festival presents "Haut Les Filles", by François Armanet, a documentary on female figures of French rock music, with special appearances by Charlotte Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy and Vanessa Paradis; also, "Berlin Bouncer", by David Dietl, invites to journey through the clubbing culture of German capital city, Berlin, and director Stephen Nomura Schible brings "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda", on the life of this Japanese architect.

The official competition presents big titles such as "Por Deus Me Libro", the 2011 comedy, directed by Martín Duplaquet and written by Juan José Hurtado.

The event "Fórum do Real" takes place between 27th and 29th November, at Cinema Passos Manuel, and presents three speakers' panels, namely, "Da Terra", to address identity and territory; "Do Pensamento", to reflect upon the philosophical concept of identities; and "Das Imagens", to ponder on contemporary cinema and identity flows.

Participants to the Forum are: Álvaro Domingues (geographer), António Guerreiro (critic), Ben Rivers (director), Christiana Perschon (director), Daniel Ribas (researcher), Marie-José Mondzain (philosopher), Pedro Mexia (critic), Susana de Matos Viegas (anthropologist), Valérie Massadian (director). Entrance is free.

The 2019 edition of Porto/Post/Doc relies on the support of Porto City Hall, the ICA - Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual- Ministry of Culture, and the CVRVV - Vinho Verde.

See here the full programme.