A Black Cat Escapes

A man is detailed for a secret mission in the countryside. After beginning to understand what it really is about, he progressively descends into madness.

Cinema is here presented as a kind of dance without music, and its performers are also the creators of the spectacle. How to deal with organisation and bureaucracy, many times oppressive, some dispersive? And what is the gaze after all?

On a rainy night André travels from Lisboa to visit Nádia in Sintra. He doesn't know that her husband just arrived from Paris and he will have to wait a long time in the rain before he can get inside the house and actually see her. Meanwhile he is tormented by his own mind, that can't stop imagining.

A look at the gatherings, film presentations, Q&A's and other activities that take place during a film festival in Lisbon.