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Summertime Sadness

Venue:

Casa do Comum

Dates:

5–6 September

Triste Para Sempre teamed up with Casa do Comum once again to bid summer farewell. Summertime Sadness was a two-day film cycle featuring independent shorts on the themes of "Family Holidays" and "Summer Loves". Each of the two sessions brought together four short films from different editions of the festival.

Poster Summertime Sadness

Production:

Triste para Sempre Cultural Association

Film programming:

António Simão, Carolina Serranito and Carolina White

Design & artwork:

Carolina Serranito, Eva Sequeira and Samuel Correia

Family Holidays session

As promised, we brought the best of summer drama in two sessions of Portuguese and international short films. The first session was dedicated to every kind of heartbreak a “Family Holiday” can hold - reunions, losses, conflicts and fears.

  • Looking for Jack (2022, Sarah Zeppeli, FR)
  • Ponto Final (2022, Miguel Lopez Beraza, ESP-PT)
  • Dark Colors (2019, Ophélie Gallant, FR)
  • Skógafoss (2018, Niels Bourgonje, NL)

Summer Loves session

Summer can also be made of intense stories, unexpected encounters and farewells that stay in memory forever. The “Summer Loves” session was dedicated to friendships and loves, fleeting passions, broken hearts and missed connections that linger long beyond the holidays.

  • Os Inúteis (2019, Rui Esperança, PT)
  • Pidgeons are dying when the city is on fire (2023, Stavrous MarkoulaKis, GR)
  • O Rio e Seu Labirinto (2023, Ian Capillé, PT)
  • Viaggio (2018, Alex Morelli, US)