Bam Bam Cinema

Steeped in the isolation of suburban Tasmania, Imogen and Audrey reflect on their lives, families and dreams between puffs on bongs, vapes and cigs. Dark clouds approach in the conversation and landscape as local wildlife looks on indifferently. Beyond the drugs and arcades, what possible routes of escape remain?

In this love story, a young couple faces an uncertain future between Africa and Europe. When they reunite in Lisbon, sharing a house with other immigrants, farness and closeness will test their relationship.

Whispers in the middle of outer space. In an interstellar journey, Brazilian archivists carry Earth’s last living remnants and their digitized copies. An intelligent system, Museo, becomes a portal into the crew’s diaries and a fractured archive of humanity. Below, a lone wanderer, perhaps the last man on Earth, roams a recovering planet Earth in ruins. Here, sounds and images collide replicas and their originals in a fractal dimension like waves crashing on the shoreline, transforming into galaxies.

A car aficionado, filmmaker Paulo Carneiro travels 2000 kilometres to meet car enthusiasts of the Portuguese community in exile. In a pop and urban universe, Périphérique Nord explores this shared passion and the freedom it provides for these exiled persons who seem to finally find (once again) a territory of their own.

The community of Covas do Barroso, in northern Portugal, discovers that the British company Savannah Resources plans to build the largest open-pit lithium mine in Europe just few meters from their homes. Confronted by this imminent threat, the People decide to organize themselves and expel the company from their lands.

“Dear Marisa, now an entire planet separates us. 17900 kilometres to be precise. At this threshold of paradise, there is only one thing I can do. Wait. And at last, the Ultimate Bliss will find us, baby.” A film-diary and an exercise of memory

Machado, a Colombian living in France, is hired to return to his hometown of Medellín and steal an emerald. During the risky execution of his plan, he becomes entangled in a series of events that lead him to reconsider the ultimate goal of his mission.

Between light, metal and silver, a collection of solidarity pins turns into an archive of another scale: spectres of exile and international struggle against Portugal’s fascist and colonial regime.

Chã das Caldeiras, at an altitude of 2000m, is a town within the caldera of the Fogo volcano, in Cape Verde. In the last eruption in 2015, the town was almost completely destroyed.