CHINA CHINA
A short film by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
FIC / Portugal / 2007 / 19’/ 35mm / Colour / Dolby Digital / 1:1.85
DVD edition “10 Portuguese Short Films” – IndieLisboa / FNAC (2011)
SYNOPSIS
China walks down Lisbon’s steep slopes towards Martim Moniz. The children, as she passes by, cry out “Chink! Chink!” China will fly. Fly away by dawn. All she wants is to be happy. But she drinks from her own poison. She drinks it to the last drop. Sometimes the air seems to be laden with evil. And Purgatory but a child’s playground.
CREDITS
Director: João Pedro RodriguesJoão Rui Guerra da Mata
Producer: João Figueiras, Blackmaria Produção Audiovisual
Script: João Rui Guerra da Mata
Cinematography: Rui Poças
Editing: Rui Mourão
Sound: Nuno Carvalho
Financed by: Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual (ICA) / Ministério da Cultura and RTP
World Premiere: Setembro 13, 2007, Cinema King, Lisbon, Portugal
Exhibitions: ARTE – ZDF / CBS Australia
Distribution and Sales: Agência – Portuguese Short Film Agency
AWARDS
2007 UNLIMITED – KurzFilmFreude, Germany – 2º Jury Award (European Competition)
2007 Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro – CURTA CINEMA, Brasil Prémio Cachaça Cinema Clube Internacional
2007 Entrevues – Festival du Film Belfort, France – Award Foreign Short Movie
FILM FESTIVALS
2018 Fictions of the Real in Portuguese Cinema – Dokufest, Portugal
2018 NOS Tv Cine, Portugal
2017 Cinéma ABC – Switzerland, Switzerland
2017 Sicilia Queer International LGBT & New Visions Filmfest, Italy
2017 João Pedro Rodrigues – Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil
2017 Cinemateca Portuguesa – Março, Portugal
2016 Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
2016 João Pedro Rodrigues at the Centre Pompidou, France
2016 Mostra – L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Yokohama, Japan
2016 João Pedro Rodrigues – Tokyo, Japan 2015 Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan
2015 Tibilisi – Festival de Cinema Europeu, Georgia
2014 Cinemateca Portuguesa em Novembro, Portugal
2014 FICH – Festival Internacional de Cinema e Vídeo Chinês e Lusófono, Portugal
2013 Sendai Short Film Festival, Japan
2013 Film Society of Lincoln Center, USA
2013 Retrospectiva João Pedro Rodrigues – Yamaguchi, Japan
2013 Cine Ceará – Festival Ibero-americano de Cinema, Brazil
2013 Curtas e Vinho verde, Portugal
2013 Joao Pedro Rodrigues Retrospectiva – Japan, Japan
2013 Festival Literário de Macau, Macau
2013 Cinema Spoutnik, Switzerland
2012 Festival do Rio, Brazil
2012 Mostra Cinema Português Contemporâneo – Brasil, Brazil
2012 VII Congresso Português de Sociologia, Portugal
2012 Jeonju International Film Festival, Korea
2011 Ciclo de Curtas – Cabo Verde, Cape Verde
2011 Ciclo de Cinema – CCB Fora de Si, Portugal
2011 TIFF Bell Lightbox, Canada
2011 Mostra na Cinemateca de Zagrebe “Cinema Tuskanac”, Croatia
2011 Universidade Livre de Bruxelas, Belgium
2011 Ciclo de Curtas – Helsínquia, Finland
2011 Espalha Fitas, Portugal
2011 Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Netherlands
2010 Centro de Língua do Instituto Camões de Goa, India
2010 Corona Cork Film Festival, Ireland
2010 Ciclo de Cinema, no Centro de Língua Portuguesa na Universidade de Hamburgo,
Germany 2010 Brazilian and Portuguese Film Series, USA
2010 Leitorado do Instituto Camões na Universidade de Georgetown, USA
2010 Ciclo de Curtas – Cabo Verde, Cape Verde
2010 Serralves em Festa, Portugal 2010 Cinema Nun’Álvares, Portugal
2010 Cine Alvalade, Portugal
2010 Early Melons International Student Film Festival, Slovakia
2010 Las Palmas International Film Festival, Spain
2009 Ovarvídeo – Festival de Vídeo de Ovar, Portugal
2009 Toronto International Film Festival, Canada
2009 Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2009 Programa Especial Português Curtas Vila do Conde – Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2009 Fitas Na Rua, Portugal 2009 Kaunasoporto Exchange Jornadas de Arte e Cultura Contemporânea Portuguesa, Lithuania
2009 Festival du Court Métrage de Nice, France
2009 Olho: Aberto, France
2008 Cinema Rialto Amsterdam (Programa Especial IndieLisboa), Netherlands
2008 Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Brazil
2008 Media 10-10, Festival du Court Métrage Namur, Belgium
2008 Short Shorts México, Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de la Ciudad de México, Mexico
2008 Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Ourense, Spain
2008 Warsaw Film Festival, Poland
2008 Fairecourt, Atelier 142, France
2008 International Short&Animation Film Festival Open Cinema, Russia
2008 Les Lutins du Court Métrage, France
2008 Festival du Court Métrage Méditerranéen de Tanger, Morocco
2008 Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca, Spain 2008 Adana Golden Boll International Short Film Competition for Mediterranean Countries, Turkey
2008 Mostra de Cinema Português – Departamento de Português da Universidade de Estudos Estrangeiros de Pequim, Embaixada de Portugal em Pequim, China
2008 Caminhos do Cinema Português XV, Portugal
2008 Festival Ibérico de Cinema de Badajoz, Spain 2008 Festibérico Festival de Cinema Português e Espanhol, Netherlands
2008 NexT International Short and Medium Length Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2008 Mediterranean Festival of New Film Makers, Larissa, Greece
2008 Festival Europeu de Curtmetratges (FEC Cambrils-Réus), Spain
2008 Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto – Fantasporto, Portugal
2008 Festival International du Film d’Amour Mons, Belgium
2008 Marché du Film Court – Festival International du Court Métrage Clermont-Ferrand, France
2008 Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Germany
2007 Cachaça Cinema Clube, Brazil
2007 Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
2007 Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao, Spain
2007 Entrevues – Festival du Film Belfort, France
2007 Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest, France
2007 UNLIMITED – KurzFilmFreude, Germany
2007 New Portuguese Cinema (Cinema Arsenal), Germany
2007 Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, Spain
2007 Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, France
2007 Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro – CURTA CINEMA, Brazil
2007 Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia
2007 Olho: Aberto, France
2007 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, Canada
2007 Fenêtre sur le court metrage contemporain – La Cinémathèque Française, France
2007 IMAGO – Festival Internacional de Cinema Jovem, Portugal
2007 Portuguese Festival Berlim, Germany
2007 Tinklai International Short Film Festival, Lithuania
2007 São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
2007 Curtas Vila do Conde Festival Internacional de Cinema, Portugal
