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A special programme of films is set to be shown in Jersey this weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Portuguese democracy.
The 13th Parish International Film Festival has partnered with the Portuguese Short Film Agency Agencia to bring the short films to the Jersey Arts Centre on Sunday.
The wider film festival will run from Thursday 23 until Sunday 26 May, and will feature international shorts ranging from thought-provoking to humorous and thrilling in various languages and from different cultural backgrounds.
The Portuguese programme on Sunday – entitled 'Celebrating the Carnation Revolution' – will mark half a century since the Carnation Revolution which ended Europe's longest fascist dictatorship and led Portugal to democracy.
Pictured: The Pink Jacket is a musical and political animation about a pink jacket who always has something up his sleeve.
The film series will offer an overview of how the Estado Novo regime, the Colonial War, and the 1974 Revolution have been depicted in Portuguese cinema.
It covers themes of resistance, fascism, and the memories and traumas of the colonial war.
The films include a political musical called ‘The Pink Jacket’, and a film about a young housewife called ‘Menina’ set in Lisbon in 1971.
The special programme follows the success of last year’s ‘Taster Day’, which held an evening screening of the music documentary, ‘Silêncio – Voices of Lisbon’ which explored the roots of Fado singing.
The film highlighted how the traditional home of this beautiful mournful-style music is under threat through excessive tourism and gentrification.
Pictured: The team behind 'A Wall is a Screen' from Hamburg with Steve Carter from the 13th Parish Film Festival outside the former Odeon Cinema last year.
13th Parish Festival Programme Co-Ordinator Una Langlois said: “We were honoured that so many of the Portuguese community and their representatives enjoyed the experience last year.
“It’s always our aim to have a diverse and accessible programme, reaching out to as many islanders, tastes, genres and interests as possible.
“We’re hoping that this will continue to grow in future – our festival is always a celebration of incredible films and stories, told in many formats and in many languages.”
Pictured: The organisers of Jersey’s grassroots film festival revealed their full programme earlier this month.
Alongside a diverse selection of contemporary short films, documentaries, and features of various genres, the festival will feature a virtual reality experience, public interviews with figures from the film industry like Hollywood director John Schultz and Jersey filmmaker Rebecca Coley, and a DIY filmmaking workshop.
Hamburg-based group 'A Wall is a Screen' is also set to return to this year's event, offering islanders the chance to spend an evening at a cinema that moves around town with its audience.
You can read the full programme at 13thparish.org.je or learn more about the 'Celebrating the Carnation Revolution' event on the Jersey Art Centre Website HERE.
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