Cinema show Close-Up 2026 addresses conflicts between parents and children

Nthe presentation of the 11th edition, today revealed, the direction of Close-Up reminds us that “filming the conflict between parents and children is filming the first battlefield of any revolution”.

Thinking about this primordial conflict, films such as “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” (2025), by Scott Cooper, inspired by the life of Bruce Springsteen and in which the relationship with his father is addressed, and “Dark Night” (2004), fiction by João Canijo, from the interior of a family that manages an alternate house.

The Close-UP will take place from October 10th to 17th, opening and closing with cine-concerts, “proposals for crossing between moving images and music”.

The musician JP Simões is in charge of the opening, with a new soundtrack for the film “Sunday People” (1930), by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, run with amateur actors in Berlin, during a succession of Sundays.

The closure will be on Samuel Uria's behalf, to play live music for Yasujiro Ozu's film "History of a rural owner" (1947), "a bittersweet tale about post-war Japan".

On October 14, there will be a cine-concert with the Makumba Club and Jacques Tourneur’s film “Zombie” (1943).

The section dedicated to the “story of cinema” is this year focused on the Italian comedy of the 1960s, with films such as “Business to Italian”, by Vittorio De Sica, and “A difficult life”, by Dino Risi.

There will also be a particular focus on the cinema by Portuguese producer Olhar de Ulysses, showing films by André Guiomar, Mário Macedo, Luís Costa, Carlos Lobo and Margarida Assis.

André Guiomar, who will have in Famalicão the films “Ku Handza” and “Our land, our altar”, will talk about his cinema with the students of the Escola Superior Artística do Porto.

The Close-UP program goes back to programming for the school community, of various levels of education, with sessions “which aim to extend beyond the projection room and enrich the experiences of the school, while forming movie viewers”, reads in the program.

“Aniki Bobó” (1942), by Manoel de Oliveira, and “Mr. Nobody vs. Putin” (2025), by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin, are two of the films chosen.

In total, there will be more than thirty film sessions with so many other guests, among musicians, directors, programmers and researchers, “at a film festival that again seeks a dialogue with the whole community, with all audiences”.

This cinema show is organized by the Casa das Artes de Vila Nova de Famalicão.