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

Tiger Bay

,

1934
If…

,

1968
Masaje

,

1972
Arrebato

,

1979
Red and Blue

,

1967
Acto dos Feitos da Guiné

,

1979
Fragments

,

2016
Bigger Than Us

,

2021
Porto ,1975

,

2010
I Am Not Pilatus

,

2019
The Island of St. Matthews

,

2013
Black Beach/Horse/Camp/The Dead/Forces

,

2016
Oriana

,

2022
Wajib

,

2017
Video Summer

,

2006
Aequador

,

2012
Sound of the Street

,

2006
Deep Sleep

,

2014
Aggregate States of Matters

,

2019
Lands of the Sea

,

2019
Towards the Colonies

,

2016
The Witches

,

1990
High Cities of Bones

,

2017
As If Sand Were Stone…

,

2019
American Hunger

,

2013
Dengung Hyena

,

2020
.TV

,

2017
Europium

,

2014
Despiste

,

2019
O Meu Primeiro Apocalipse

,

2021
Triunfo de Helmut

,

2022
Reconstrução

,

2022
As Palavras e os Fios

,

1962
As Cidades e as Trocas

,

2014
Calling Cabral

,

2022
As Sombras e os Seus Nomes

,

2021
I Spit on Your Grave [excerpt]

,

1959
What About China?

,

2022
Atlantics

,

2019
Sunflower Siege Engine

,

2022
The Mississipi Multiverse

,

2020
The Piano

,

1993
Os Demónios de Alcácer Quibir

,

1976
A Mirror of the Cosmos

,

2022
Foreign in a Domestic Sense

,

2021
The End of the World

,

2019
Secrets & Lies

,

1996
Song Of The Sea

,

2014
Eyes Wide Shut [trailer]

,

1999
Cape Fear

,

1962
Sunfish

,

2011
The Living Also Cry

,

2012
Black Cloud

,

2014
2720

,

2023
The War Game

,

1962
The Girls

,

1968
Scrubbers

,

1982
Waterloo Bridge

,

1931
Night Games

,

1966
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

,

1989
Musik i mörker

,

1948
Um Adeus Português

,

1986
Like Twenty Impossibles

,

2003
Salt of This Sea

,

109
The Souvenir: Part II

,

2021
After the Night

,

2013
Fiesta Forever

,

2016
Sunday Afternoon

,

1965
A Arte e o Ofício de Ourives

,

1963
Dom Roberto

,

1962
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

,

1953
Out Loud

,

2022
The Mozart Brothers

,

1986
Paris 1900

,

1947
Girls in Uniform

,

1931
Vanille

,

2020
Maradona's Legs

,

2019
The Penguin's Flight

,

2018
My Extraordinary Summer with Tess

,

2019
Uma Vida Difícil

,

2023
Countryside by the Sea

,

2015
Acera, or the Witches' Dance

,

1972
The Love Life of the Octopus

,

1967
Five Minutes to Sea

,

2018
Jazz on a Summer’s Day

,

1959
Grease
The Tree

,

2018
This Sporting Life

,

1963
Frieda

,

1947
Altépetl

,

2013
A Sibila

,

Elso Roque

,

2023
Armazónia

,

2021
Europa Europa

,

Agnieszka Holland

,

1990
Loving Couples

,

1964
Labor of Love

,

2020
Milk of Amnesia

,

1992
Dr. Glas

,

1968
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

,

2001
Queen

,

2019
Amorosa

,

1986

Families

Tiger Bay

,

1934
If…

,

1968
Masaje

,

1972
Arrebato

,

1979
Red and Blue

,

1967
Acto dos Feitos da Guiné

,

1979
Fragments

,

2016
Bigger Than Us

,

2021
Porto ,1975

,

2010
I Am Not Pilatus

,

2019
The Island of St. Matthews

,

2013
Black Beach/Horse/Camp/The Dead/Forces

,

2016
Oriana

,

2022
Wajib

,

2017
Video Summer

,

2006
Aequador

,

2012
Sound of the Street

,

2006
Deep Sleep

,

2014
Aggregate States of Matters

,

2019
Lands of the Sea

,

2019
Towards the Colonies

,

2016
The Witches

,

1990
High Cities of Bones

,

2017
As If Sand Were Stone…

,

2019
American Hunger

,

2013
Dengung Hyena

,

2020
.TV

,

2017
Europium

,

2014
Despiste

,

2019
O Meu Primeiro Apocalipse

,

2021
Triunfo de Helmut

,

2022
Reconstrução

,

2022
As Palavras e os Fios

,

1962
As Cidades e as Trocas

,

2014
Calling Cabral

,

2022
As Sombras e os Seus Nomes

,

2021
I Spit on Your Grave [excerpt]

,

1959
What About China?

,

2022
Atlantics

,

2019
Sunflower Siege Engine

,

2022
The Mississipi Multiverse

,

2020
The Piano

,

1993
Os Demónios de Alcácer Quibir

,

1976
A Mirror of the Cosmos

,

2022
Foreign in a Domestic Sense

,

2021
The End of the World

,

2019
Secrets & Lies

,

1996
Song Of The Sea

,

2014
Eyes Wide Shut [trailer]

,

1999
Cape Fear

,

1962
Sunfish

,

2011
The Living Also Cry

,

2012
Black Cloud

,

2014
2720

,

2023
The War Game

,

1962
The Girls

,

1968
Scrubbers

,

1982
Waterloo Bridge

,

1931
Night Games

,

1966
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

,

1989
Musik i mörker

,

1948
Um Adeus Português

,

1986
Like Twenty Impossibles

,

2003
Salt of This Sea

,

109
The Souvenir: Part II

,

2021
After the Night

,

2013
Fiesta Forever

,

2016
Sunday Afternoon

,

1965
A Arte e o Ofício de Ourives

,

1963
Dom Roberto

,

1962
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

,

1953
Out Loud

,

2022
The Mozart Brothers

,

1986
Paris 1900

,

1947
Girls in Uniform

,

1931
Vanille

,

2020
Maradona's Legs

,

2019
The Penguin's Flight

,

2018
My Extraordinary Summer with Tess

,

2019
Uma Vida Difícil

,

2023
Countryside by the Sea

,

2015
Acera, or the Witches' Dance

,

1972
The Love Life of the Octopus

,

1967
Five Minutes to Sea

,

2018
Jazz on a Summer’s Day

,

1959
Grease
The Tree

,

2018
This Sporting Life

,

1963
Frieda

,

1947
Altépetl

,

2013
A Sibila

,

Elso Roque

,

2023
Armazónia

,

2021
Europa Europa

,

Agnieszka Holland

,

1990
Loving Couples

,

1964
Labor of Love

,

2020
Milk of Amnesia

,

1992
Dr. Glas

,

1968
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

,

2001
Queen

,

2019
Amorosa

,

1986

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