FilmChief - Basil da Cunha
Basil da Cunha

2720, 2023

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Portuguese-Swiss director Basil da Cunha divides his practice between Switzerland, where he was born, and Portugal, where he lives and makes his films. Somewhere between social realism and poetic imagination, his work focuses on characters who, through dreams or in fantasy, yearn for experiences beyond the realities they already know.

His films — which have been shown at the Cannes, Locarno and Rotterdam film festivals — are love letters to his neighbourhood, Reboleira, and respond to the pressing need for new perspectives on its resident community. Located in Lisbon, this area — and the systematic destruction, eviction and rehousing that mark it — have become central settings and themes in his films, which regularly feature non-professional actors and, more often than not, a dose of humour.

Batalha presents a retrospective of Basil da Cunha’s short and feature-length films, plus a brand new, specially-commissioned film-concert: a work that brings to life a new vision of Reboleira and which foregrounds another fundamental element in the director’s practice — music.

Full programme

2720, 2023

The End of the World, 2019

Black Cloud, 2014

After the Night, 2013

The Living Also Cry, 2012

Sunfish, 2011

Next screenings

Screenings

18

,

2019
A School in Cerro Hueso

,

2021
A Lei da Terra

,

1977
The 400 Blows

,

1959
Code Names

,

2022
The Lady from Constantinople

,

1969
Adoro Ser Livre

,

2023
Vie privée

,

1962
Para Norte

,

2023
Two Friends

,

1986
After Hours

,

1984
A Girl’s Own Story

,

1983
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel

,

1982
Passionless Moments

,

1983
West Indies, les nègres marrons de la liberté

,

1979
An Angel at My Table

,

1990
Sweetie

,

1989
Luta do Povo: Alfabetização em Santa Catarina

,

1976
Jornal Cinematográfico Nacional n.º 10

,

1976
As Desventuras de Drácula Von Barreto nas Terras da Reforma Agrária

,

1977
Time of Darkness

,

1987
A Força do Atrito

,

1993
E o Tempo... Atrás Voltou

,

1960
The Invention of Love

,

1965
The Celebration

,

1998
All That Jazz

,

1979
Caixa Aberta

,

2023
Ano Um

,

1975
Memórias das Minas de São Pedro da Cova

,

1975
The Useless

,

2019
Remains

,

2002
Bring Me the Head of Carmen M.

,

2019
Salt Fragments

,

2000
The Last Bath

,

2020
Hoax

,

2005
Cem Raios T'Abram

,

2015
Sleepwalkers

,

2014
Tito and the Birds

,

2018
Una isla para Miguel

,

1968
De cierta manera

,

1977
Toute une nuit

,

1982
Es.Col.A da Fontinha

,

2012
A Bruddah's Mind

,

2020
Coconut Head Generation

,

2023
Nation Estate

,

2012
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

,

2016
South

,

2020
Foragers

,

2022
Handsworth Songs

,

1986
The Pearl Button

,

2015
Seasick

,

2021
Once Removed

,

2019
Never Rest/Unrest

,

2020
República

,

2019
Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!

,

2020
Camera Obscura

,

2023
Scrooged

,

1988
Dekalog: One

,

1988
Dekalog, osiem

,

1988
Cycling the Frame

,

1988
The Invisible Frame

,

2009
Adriana

,

2005
2720

,

2023
Um Medo Com Duas Grandes Faces

,

2022
What Time Is It There?

,

2001
Reproduta Interdita

,

1990
Tierra en Trance

,

2022
The Winged Stone

,

2023
Tonalli

,

2021
El nido del Sol

,

2021
The Sun Quartet, Part 4: Far from Ayotzinapa

,

2017
The Sun Quartet, Part 2: San Juan River

,

2017
The Sun Quartet, Part 1: SunStone

,

2017
Coyolxauhqui

,

2017
Have You Seen?

,

2017
Impressions for a Light and Sound Machine

,

2014
Low-Flying Aircraft

,

2002
Rebels of the Neon God

,

1992
Phantom Beirut

,

1998
The River

,

1997
Curso de Hipnotismo para Artistas Emergentes

,

2021
A River Called Titas

,

1973
Wonderwall

,

1968
Vive l’amour

,

1994
Nowhere

,

1997
Kung Fu Master!

,

1988
Pacific Club

,

2023
Clubbed to Death (Lola)

,

1996
Playback. Ensayo de una despedida

,

2019
Wildness

,

2012
Imaginary Friends (excerpt)

,

2019
Cool Strangers in the Night

,

2024
The Driver’s Seat

,

1974
Souvenirs of Serge

,

2011
The Hole

,

1998
Álbuns da Terra — Linha de Tempo (Performance)
Os Amigos do Gaspar: Uma Reunião na Cidade

,

2023
The Wayward Cloud

,

2005
1971 Shei Shob Din

,

2023
2nd Person

,

2022

Families

18

,

2019
A School in Cerro Hueso

,

2021
A Lei da Terra

,

1977
The 400 Blows

,

1959
Code Names

,

2022
The Lady from Constantinople

,

1969
Adoro Ser Livre

,

2023
Vie privée

,

1962
Para Norte

,

2023
Two Friends

,

1986
After Hours

,

1984
A Girl’s Own Story

,

1983
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel

,

1982
Passionless Moments

,

1983
West Indies, les nègres marrons de la liberté

,

1979
An Angel at My Table

,

1990
Sweetie

,

1989
Luta do Povo: Alfabetização em Santa Catarina

,

1976
Jornal Cinematográfico Nacional n.º 10

,

1976
As Desventuras de Drácula Von Barreto nas Terras da Reforma Agrária

,

1977
Time of Darkness

,

1987
A Força do Atrito

,

1993
E o Tempo... Atrás Voltou

,

1960
The Invention of Love

,

1965
The Celebration

,

1998
All That Jazz

,

1979
Caixa Aberta

,

2023
Ano Um

,

1975
Memórias das Minas de São Pedro da Cova

,

1975
The Useless

,

2019
Remains

,

2002
Bring Me the Head of Carmen M.

,

2019
Salt Fragments

,

2000
The Last Bath

,

2020
Hoax

,

2005
Cem Raios T'Abram

,

2015
Sleepwalkers

,

2014
Tito and the Birds

,

2018
Una isla para Miguel

,

1968
De cierta manera

,

1977
Toute une nuit

,

1982
Es.Col.A da Fontinha

,

2012
A Bruddah's Mind

,

2020
Coconut Head Generation

,

2023
Nation Estate

,

2012
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

,

2016
South

,

2020
Foragers

,

2022
Handsworth Songs

,

1986
The Pearl Button

,

2015
Seasick

,

2021
Once Removed

,

2019
Never Rest/Unrest

,

2020
República

,

2019
Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!

,

2020
Camera Obscura

,

2023
Scrooged

,

1988
Dekalog: One

,

1988
Dekalog, osiem

,

1988
Cycling the Frame

,

1988
The Invisible Frame

,

2009
Adriana

,

2005
2720

,

2023
Um Medo Com Duas Grandes Faces

,

2022
What Time Is It There?

,

2001
Reproduta Interdita

,

1990
Tierra en Trance

,

2022
The Winged Stone

,

2023
Tonalli

,

2021
El nido del Sol

,

2021
The Sun Quartet, Part 4: Far from Ayotzinapa

,

2017
The Sun Quartet, Part 2: San Juan River

,

2017
The Sun Quartet, Part 1: SunStone

,

2017
Coyolxauhqui

,

2017
Have You Seen?

,

2017
Impressions for a Light and Sound Machine

,

2014
Low-Flying Aircraft

,

2002
Rebels of the Neon God

,

1992
Phantom Beirut

,

1998
The River

,

1997
Curso de Hipnotismo para Artistas Emergentes

,

2021
A River Called Titas

,

1973
Wonderwall

,

1968
Vive l’amour

,

1994
Nowhere

,

1997
Kung Fu Master!

,

1988
Pacific Club

,

2023
Clubbed to Death (Lola)

,

1996
Playback. Ensayo de una despedida

,

2019
Wildness

,

2012
Imaginary Friends (excerpt)

,

2019
Cool Strangers in the Night

,

2024
The Driver’s Seat

,

1974
Souvenirs of Serge

,

2011
The Hole

,

1998
Álbuns da Terra — Linha de Tempo (Performance)
Os Amigos do Gaspar: Uma Reunião na Cidade

,

2023
The Wayward Cloud

,

2005
1971 Shei Shob Din

,

2023
2nd Person

,

2022

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