| January 31, 2012 | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | ||
Qingtiang is a small rural town in China (Zhejiang province) where the Portuguese, Spanish and Italian languages can be heard on the streets. Wang Jin Ping is a young man who is preparing to immigrate to Europe. Friends, family and others who have gone through this experience express their concerns. “Go with the Wind” is a testimony to the difficulties of living in a foreign cultural territory, as the West is to the Chinese. It is a story of people who leave in search of a better life. A Chinese story, or a story from anywhere.
Born into a family of actors in Lisbon in 1975, Ivo Ferreira grew up around theatre and acting. His love of cinema led him to take an Audiovisual Communication Course at the Antonio Arroyo School of Arts, as well as to go on periods of learning abroad, for example at the University of Budapest. Traveling to China, he directed and produced his first documentary film, “O Homem da Bicicleta – Diário de Macau”. In 1998 he directed his first short fiction film, “O Que Foi?” which won the Young Talent Award at the 7th Short Film Festival Vila do Conde. After his first feature film, “Em Volta” (2002), and other projects, in 2009 he presented two films at IndieLisboa: the documentary “Go with the Wind” and the feature film “Águas Mil”, the latter premiering at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and screening in over 20 international film festivals around the world. “O Estrangeiro” his next project, was a film included in the INMACAU project, commissioned and produced for the ten-year commemoration of the handover of Macau to the People’s Republic of China. Currently, Ferreira is preparing to film “Cartas de Guerra”, an adaptation of letters that the writer Antonio Lobo Antunes wrote during the Portuguese colonial war, as well as a series of three short films for the European Capital of Culture, a title bestowed on the Portuguese city of Guimaraes this year.
GO WITH THE WIND
Ivo Ferreira
Duration: 52’
Production: António Maltez – AM Prod
Original Language: Mandarin / Local Dialect
Subtitles: English
Session followed by a conversation
with the director
