High Cities of Bone

João Salaviza

Fiction / HD / 19' / 2017

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing project to which he had been relocated.
Nights of vigil are spent under a sweltering tropical heat.
Among the sugarcanes, a murmur is heard. Karlon hasn’t stopped singing.
“High Cities of Bone” is a probing and imaginative exploration of Karlon’s memories, the institutional siege, and the submerged stories from a dark time.

With Karlon, Xama, Maria do Céu Magalhães, Leonor Ferreira SCRIPT João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora, Karlon Cinematography Vasco Viana Sound Rafael Cardoso Executive Producer Pedro Pinho Editing João Salaviza, Edgar Feldman Sound Editing Rafael Cardoso Sound Mix Xavier Thieulin Colorist Andreia Bertini film developed under URB (Partis FCG) project:

Awards

Fiction Gold Award - Zinebi - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao '17
Best International Short Film - Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Cosquín'18
Jury Award Winner - Slow Short Film Festival'18
Best Fiction - FIKE'18

Festivals

Internationale Filmfestpiele Berlin / Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale Shorts Competition, Germany '17
Tampere Film Festival 2017, Finland '17
Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea '17
Martovski Festival - Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia '17
Curtas Vila do Conde – Festival Internacional de Cinema, Portugal '17
Next International Film Festival, Romania '17
Lima Independente Festival Internacional de Cine, Peru '17
Kugoma - Fórum de Cinema de Moçambique, Mozambique '17
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico '17
Arkipel Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2017, Indonesia '17
Curt'Arruda - Festival de Cinema Rural de Arruda dos Vinhos, Portugal '17
Festcurtas BH - Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte, Brazil '17
Chicago International Film Festival, USA '17
Duhok International Film Festival, Kurdistan - Iraq '17
DocLisboa, Portugal '17
CineEco - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Ambiente da Serra da Estrela, Portugal '17
Há Filmes Na Baixa, Portugal '17
Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival, Portugal
Zinebi - Bilboko Dokumentalen eta Film Laburren Nazioarteko Jaialdia / International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain '17
Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival, India '17
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden '17
Ekadeshma International Short Film Festival, Nepal '17
Bratislava International Film Festival - Shorts Competition, Slovakia '17
Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema — Competition Shorts, Brazil '17
Balinale International Film Festival, Indonesia '17
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, UK '17
Festival Internacional de Curtas de Verin, Spain '17
Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português, Portugal '17
FestiFreak Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata, Argentina '17
Aspen ShortsFest , USA '17
Berlinale Spotlight: India, India '17
Berlinale Spotlight: Macau, Macau '17
Berlinale Spotlight: Hong Kong, Hong Kong '17
Berlinale Spotlight: Shanghai, China '17
Les Inattendus - Festival de Films (Trés) Indépendants, France '18
Akbank Short Film Festival, Turkey '18
CÓRTEX - Festival de Curtas-Metragens de Sintra, Portugal '18
Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria, Portugal '18
Festival de Cine y Televisión Reino de León, Spain '18
Mostra de Cinema Português Contemporâneo, Brazil '18
14th Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival, Slovenia '18
Tabor Film Festival, Slovenia'18
Slow Short Film Festival, UK '18
Minikino Film Week, Indonesia ’18
Cine La Orquídea, Equador'18
FIKE, Portugal '18
Nova Cinema, Bélgica'19
Monumental, Lisboa'19
Festival Primavera do Cine de Vigo, Spain’19
8th Family Film Project, Portugal'19
DocLisboa, Portugal '19
33. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Alemanha'20
8ª Semana de Cine Portugués, Argentina'21

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