Have we learned from the past? Is it possible to deny the past? Which are the risks of forgetting the past or parts of it? – This year, the films presented on the MICAR anti-racist film festival deal with these and other questions of individual and collective memory – again with the support of transform! europe.
History, and what we are told about History, is also a product of what we hear at home, in school, in books, in the media, and also in public spaces, and in the names
of the streets, the statues and monuments.
What History have we built from our Individual and Collective Memories?
Memory is a central element in the construction of Identity. However, Memory and its own construction are subject to inevitable biases: what we remember and how we remember are reconstruction products and not faithful remembrances. We also know that the stories we tell shape the stories we chose to build for the future and the role we want to play in it.
This means that in order to defend our Identity, both individually and collectively, we are highly vulnerable to distorting our role in History, our origins, what connects us, what separates us, as well as our responsibilities and mistakes we may have committed…
Find further information at the website of the MICAR festival.
Find the programme for download on the right (PDF) (Portuguese).
Programme
Thursday, 3 October
21h30
O Canto do Ossobó
Silas Tiny
1h38m | 2017 | Portugal
Friday, 4 October
10h30
A Lupa
Nazgol Emami
10m | 2018 | Germany
Sara & Morris
Diana Menestrey e Camilo Colmenares
4m | 2018 | Germany
Looks
Susann Hoffmann
4m | 2015 | Germany
Fábula da Vó Ita
Joyce Prado e Thallita Oshiro
5m | 2016 | Brasil
11h30
Gigante
Johanna Bentz
15m | 2018 | Germany
Dorothy la vagabonde
Emmanuelle Gorgiard
8m | 2018 | France • Belgium
Une girafe sous la pluie
Pascale Hecquet
12m | 2007 | France
O fim do recreio
Vinicius Mazzon e Nélio Spréa
18m | 2011 | Brasil
17h30
O Bairro da Formiga
Rui Pilão
3m | 2019 | Portugal
The Way Out
Petr Václav
1h43m | 2014 | Czech Republic • France
21h30
Black Panther
Agnès Varda
31m | 1968 | France • USA
Saturday, 5 October
15h
The Way Out
Petr Václav
1h43m | 2014 | Czech Republic • France
17h30
Lifeboat
Skye Fitzgerald
34m | 2018 | USA
A People Uncounted
Aaron Yeger
1h39m | 2011 | Canada
Hungary 2018
Eszter Hajdú
1h25m | 2018 | Hungary • Portugal
21h30
Black Out
vários
38m | 2016 | Brasil
Além do Espelho
Ana Flauzina
52m | 2014 | Brasil • USA
Sunday, 6 October
15h
Handsworth Songs
John Akomfrah
1h03m | 1986 | UK
17h30
A People Uncounted
Aaron Yeger
1h39m | 2011 | Canada