PROGRAM
The second edition of the Maia International Film Festival, set to take place in April 2025, promises an even richer program featuring films from both emerging and established talents in global cinema. With a carefully curated selection of feature films and esteemed guests such as Margarida Cardoso (PT) and Algimantas Puipa (LT), the festival continues its commitment to diversity and cinematic creativity. For several days, the city of Maia will host inspiring encounters between filmmakers and audiences, creating unforgettable moments of dialogue and artistic exchange.
The Night Screening (LT)
A never-ending night screening featuring the lives of you, the film star Lisa, the film critic Theodore, best class’ student clockmaker and his bench-mate, the country’s President. They are created and rewritten by the Empire of Dreams of commercial cinema. Are the characters and the audience destined to wake up?
Screening | Wednesday April 30th | 21:30
Guitar Barrel Project (PT)
The unexpected discovery by a luthier of wooden staves from old wine barrels—believed to have belonged to the Marquis of Pombal—sparks the challenge of transforming them into musical instruments and artistic objects by six world-renowned luthiers. At the same time, one of the enormous barrels (holding over 5,000 liters) will be restored at one of the most prestigious cooperages.
Screening | Thursday May 1st | 11:00
Rabia (DE/FR)
Driven by the promise of a new life, Jessica, a 19-year-old Frenchwoman, leaves for Syria to join Daech. Arriving in Raqqa, she joins a home for the future wives of combatants, and soon finds herself the prisoner of Madame, the charismatic director who runs the place with an iron fist. Inspired by true events.
Screening | Thursday May 1st | 14:00
Robot t-0 (FR)
In a near future, Max and her daughter are selling stolen robots on the black market. When Max loses custody of her daughter following their latest scheme, she must rely on the last robot she took, T-O, who is ready to do anything to help.
Screening | Thursday May 1st | 16:00
Moon (AT)
Former martial artist Sarah leaves Austria to train three sisters from a wealthy family in the Middle East. What sounds initially like a dream job soon becomes unsettling: the young women are cut off from the outside world and under constant surveillance. Sport doesn’t seem to interest them. So why has Sarah been hired?
Screening | Thursday May 1st | 18:00
A Woman and Her Four Men (LT)
A balladic story from a Baltic fishermen´s settlement set at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Screening | Thursday May 1st | 21:00
Rhythm of the Dammam (IN)
His late grandfather’s spirit haunts Twelve-year-old Jayaram Siddi. He loses touch with reality. His family embraces tribal rituals and Dammam music to restore his balance and address inter-generational trauma.
Screening | Friday May 2nd | 14:00
Kino (DE)
An observation of daily life from the perspective of a cinema employee together with the imagination and power of cinema.
Screening | Friday May 2nd | 16:00
The Hyperboreans (CL)
A woman’s storytelling and illusions bring to life the controversial figure of Miguel Serrano, a Chilean writer who propagated esoteric Neo-Nazi philosophies, prompting contemplation about his place in history.
Screening | Friday May 2nd | 18:00
Costa dos Múrmurios (PT)
During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable.
Screening | Friday May 2nd | 21:00
Delirio (CR)
Masha (11) and her mother Elisa move to her grandmother’s house, to take care of her.
Everybody acts as if Masha’s father is dead, something she denies. Elisa feels the presence of a threatening person around the house. To protect Masha she cuts her off from the outside world.
Screening | Friday May 2nd | 23:10
Mary and the Witch's Flower (JP)
Screening | Saturday May 3rd | 11:00
Dragon Dilatation (FR)
Dragon Dilatation is the union of two filmic essays, Petrouchka and La Déviante Comédie. The first part
is a rereading of Stravinsky’s ballet, while the second segment is made up of traces of an unpublished
performance rehearsed at the Théâtre des Amandiers.
Screening | Saturday May 3rd | 14:00
MA Cry of Silence (MM)
Screening | Saturday May 3rd | 16:15
Movie Talks
Free Entrance
Schedule | Saturday May 3rd | 17:45
Banzo (PT)
1907. Afonso starts a new life on an African tropical island as a plantation doctor, tasked with treating a group of servants “infected” by Banzo—the deep nostalgia of enslaved people. They die by the dozens, either from starvation or suicide. Fearing contagion, the group is sent to a rainy hill surrounded by dense forest. There, Afonso struggles to heal them, but his inability to understand the depths of their suffering proves stronger than any remedy.
Screening | Saturday May 3rd | 21:30
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