[vc_row][vc_column width='3/5'] We can read it very well in James Frazer's "The Golden Bough": man have always personified trees, transforming them in beings that had a major influence on cultures, myths, religions and sacred rituals throughout history. Nature may not be magical after all, but all...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/5'] In recent times, horror movies have become the most popular genre among both amateur filmmakers and big production companies, but the majority of them deals with stories of exorcisms, ghosts, esotericism, demonic cults and monsters. The noir/horror where a serial killer tortures its prey...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/5'] In the latest century, cinema contributed largely to the education of the masses through history represented. It is a means that gives people the chance not only to know about the past, but also to witness it like it were still existent, still real. In...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/5'] There are many levels on which a film can work. Most of the films work on a narrative level, developing a story that goes from one point to another in a linear way, giving the spectator the chance to emphatize with one or more...
[vc_row] One of the greatest powers of cinema is to represent hypothetical situations like they're real, and to materialize different pathways of a character life by giving the spectator the feel they're all equally possible and concrete. In this short film "RES" by Marc Zammet, when a...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/5'] In many places of the world women's rights are far from being conquered. But in our century, in the same places, men and women are fighting for them to be acknowledged. Films can be a powerful mean for social rights, and can be used...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/5'] Biopic is one of the hardest genre to stage, because it is very difficult to really get to know somebody that has died and it is even harder if he or she is still living. The dark side of a person, the one that...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/5'] Cinema has been used throughout the years as a mean of materializing those forces that have always been perceived as dark or magical, becoming a genre that has always been alive from the beginning of cinema to our days. In this short movie called...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/5']In times like ours, where thinking has become almost obsolete, it is very hard to find shorts with a stimulating philosophical language. In this short by Filipe Piteira called "Ephemerality", the theme of the end of a relationship and of the loss of somebody becomes...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/5'] We are in the era with the highest number of psychological and psychiatric problems ever recorded. The numbers are on the rise, and nobody seems to be able to find a solution. The rhythms, habits and social difficulties of the contemporaneity have really brought...