Movies: Ana Rita Barata

Every year, in the province with the highest rate of desertification in Portugal, thirteen villages of the border rejuvenate a bullfight with unique characteristics: the Capeia Arraiana. The butlers prepare they party and contribute to the ethnograph...

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Fallen to an aquatic world, they move ineffably in a dense, clear atmosphere as if it was their first autonomous moment....

Poti Pati is a film based on a monologue that a character has with himself—or with his double—the text challenges the characters, brings them closer together, punctuating it with body movement. The materiality of time is sought in the details of spac...

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In this film there is a crescent count until the demystification of a bridge that connects and separates one country from another. Portugal and Spain, distant by fragments of their memories, images, objects, voices and ruins. Time runs out... An anxi...