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Commissioned to create a bust of Napoleon’s great-grand-niece Marie Bonaparte, the sculptor Brâncusi instead delivered a bronze phallus. Thus begins a lively historical tour covering the early days of modernism, the emergence of psychoanalysis, and the nascent study of female sexuality.
– KATHLEEN MCINNIS

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Bio
Born in North Carolina in 1984.
Studied at the Cooper Union in New York, Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing and L’Ecole National des Beaux Arts in Paris.
His work has shown in exhibitions at the MIT List Center for the Visual Arts, the Palais de Tokyo, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva and Museu Serralves.
His films have screened in competition at festivals such as La Biennale di Venezia, the Berlinale, Locarno International Film Festival, and IndieLisboa.
He was been awarded prizes such as the 2014 EFA Best Short Film Nomination at the Berlinale Short Film competition for Taprobana, the 2011 Film and Video Award at the Locarno International Short Film Competition for Liberdade, and the 2010 Golden Leopard for the Best Short Film at the Locarno Short Film Competition for A History of Mutual Respect.
Many of his films are made in collaboration with other artists and filmmakers such as Daniel Schmidt, Benjamin Crotty, and Ben Rivers.
He is currently teaching cinema at the Haute Ecole d’Art et Design in Geneva and working on his first feature film, Tristes Monroes, co-directed with Daniel Schmidt, a screwball comedy in post earthquake Haiti.

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Language(s):English
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Rita has it all. She is 15 years old and the summer is ahead of her. She floods the balcony floor and splashes about while soaking up the mighty sun. She has an ex-future boyfriend and an ever-present best friend. She braids her hair and goes to parties.
Naturally, from Portugal to the South Pacific, this whole fortress gently falls apart when Rita visits the exhibition put on by a new neighbour in the local community center.

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Director’s Bio-filmography

João Nicolau was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and therefore has never understood (nor will he ever) a thing about the Middle East.
He works as a film director, film editor, actor and musician.
He has directed the features The Sword and the Rose (2010) and John From (2015) and the short films Bird of Prey (2006), Song of Love and Health (2009), The Gift of Tears (2012) and Wild Haggis (2013).
His films are regularly shown in the most prestigious film festivals: Cannes, Venice, Locarno, São Paulo, Belfort, Vienna, Busan, Buenos Aires, Sevilla, Vila do Conde, Angers, Milan, Montreal, Mar del Plata, Belo Horizonte, Valdivia, Rome, Sarajevo, among others.

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Director’s Note
Nothing is as fierce as the heart of a young girl. If there’s anything purer and more violent I don’t know what that might be.
Openly prudish and playful, this film seeks to sound out the logic and transformations of youthful passion. By respecting and observing its particular codes, this exploration deliberately avoids the approach that sees the attraction between a teenager and someone older as a psychological disorder or a symptom of social disease. Both the film and the protagonist are left with no other route than the constant transfiguration that brings us closer to the most truthful side of this passionate relationship: beauty itself.

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Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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