Since its founding in 1969 by the French Directors’ Guild, the Directors’ Fortnight has served as a vital and boldly independent counter program to the Cannes Film Festival. This year, the Directors’ Fortnight is taking it on the road for the first time, presenting locally curated selections of its 2024 program with director Julien Rejl in person.
The Fortnight Extended is presented by the Quinzaine des cinéastes, Villa Albertine, Acropolis Cinema, and the Museum of the Moving Image. Discount passes for admission to all seven screenings at the Culver Theater can be purchased here.
About the film:
Once upon a time, there was a revolution in Covas do Barroso, a village in northern Portugal. A hybrid documentary in which, between songs and Western imagery, the villagers stage their own struggle—which is still going on—against the industrial project that threatens their land. The British firm Savannah Resources hopes to develop and exploit what would become the largest open-cast lithium mine in Europe. It's a ballad of resistance that at times evokes the cinema of Luc Moullet or Alain Guiraudie.
TRT: 77 min
"An unusually gentle David and Goliath tale. A winsome, slow-burning charmer." —Jonathan Holland, Screen International
"Political cinema, yes, but without the foibles or commonplaces of the genre; a unique film both in its form and content." —Diego Batlle, Otroscines.com
"Mainlines the spirit of rebellion and resistance. Carneiro channels a particular brand of authenticity and immediacy through the hybridization of documentary and reenactment." —Nicholas Bell, Ioncinema
(Available to download after screening date)