Porto/Post/Doc 5th Edition is all about the journey on reality cinema

The Porto/Post/Doc Festival brings the world in film, once again, featuring fiction that represents reality from Russian nationalism and Peruvian ethnography to Transsexuality in Brazil and prostitution in Japan.

The festival kicked-off on 24 November and concludes on 2 December.

"The cinema of reality is more and more an essential component of contemporary cinema", asserts the Director of the festival, Dario Oliveira.

The official competition presents big titles such as "Donbass", the new film by Russian filmmaker Sergey Loznitsa, selected for the opening of the section "Un Certain Regard", at the Cannes Festival, on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and works by filmmakers Andrea Bussmann, Leo Sato and Robert Greene.

Two Portuguese productions were also selected, namely "Sobre tudo e sobre nada", a documentary film by Dídio Pestana, and "Hálito Azul", by Rodrigo Areias. It is worth mentioning that one third of the films presented - 45 out of 130 - are Portuguese.

The national production is included in the sections "Cinema Falado" and "Cinema Novo". The first section features "Levantados do Chão", a film by video artist and photographer Daniel Blaufuks, and also the documentary film by Salomé Lamas, "Extinction".

Off-competition, the section "Transmission", turned to the musical component, is much awaited as it presents the national première of "Sign O' The Times", a documentary film written and directed by Prince, which will be screened during the prize award ceremony.

Laura Mulvey, the influent film critic and British feminist, is one of the guests to the festival and will address gender issues.

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