EFA SHORTS ON TOUR SESSION #2

INVISIBLE HERO

Cristèle Alves Meira | France, Portugal | 2019 | 27 min. | O.V. in Portuguese subtitled in Spanish and English
Duarte, a blind man in his 50s, starts to look for his friend Leandro, a Cape Verdean immigrant who mysteriously disappeared. 

IN BETWEEN

Samir Karahoda | Kosovo | 2019 | 15 min. | O.V. in Albanian subtitled in Spanish and English
An empathetic portrait of the families that, by economic necessity, need to live much of their lives separated and living in cultures not their own.

THE GOLDEN BUTTONS

Alex Evstigneev | Russia | 2019 | 20 min. | O.V. in Russian subtitled in Spanish and English
A glimpse into a school where the Russian National Guards are trained, a force created in 2016 by Putin "to fight terrorism", in effect an organization to repress those who are against the regime.

PAST PERFECT

Jorge Jácome | Portugal | 2019 | 23 min. | O.V. in Portuguese subtitled in Spanish and English
Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. In the case of Portugal it is a nostalgia, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past.