The Luminous LIfe director João Rosas discusses using cinema as cartography and charting the life of the same child through different films.
“Men have a lot to learn from women” — João Rosas on The Luminous Life

Exploring the Outer Edge of Film
The Luminous LIfe director João Rosas discusses using cinema as cartography and charting the life of the same child through different films.
The spirit of Éric Rohmer lives on in João Rosas excellent Crystal Globe entry The Luminuous Life, capturing the perils of love under capitalism.
I Only Rest in the Storm is an epic exploration of the relationship between Africa and the West that fiendishly complicates stereotypical portrayals.
A group of villagers stage a series of increasingly bizarre protests against the development of a lithium mine in the unengaging Savanna and the Mountain.
A free-wheeling, three-part riot of formal invention, Víctor Iriarte’s excellent debut is at once aesthetically rigorous and politically pointed.
Haughty mothers haunt a draughty hotel in João Canijo’s Bad Living and Living Bad, playing in both Competition and Encounters at the Berlinale 2023.