KINOOCEANY. TYDZIEN FILMU PORTUGALSKIEGO (PORTUGUESE CINEMA WEEK IN POLAND) 2025

20-29 June this year marks the first Portuguese cinema event in Warsaw. Both weekends will be dedicated to classics, weekday screenings to relatively new productions. Whether from 2015 or 2023, the movies talk about Lisbon or the countryside, the mass migration to France or Switzerland in the 1960s. Many feature Cape Verdean music. A showcase of the Portuguese world as it is nowadays and of how it's been formed. All movies are screened in Portuguese with Polish subtitles, no English version.

THE LEGEND OF OCHI

The director used to make music videos before, the Ochi are puppets, no CGIs.

Watchable. Shot in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, with animatronics as the Ochi, it's modern day fantasy. The story is set "on an island on the Black Sea" and characters bear names that seemed regional to Americans, so there is a Petro but also a Yuri who's a girl. Apart from a few moments of cuteness, the plot is straightforward, grim and gloomy. It feels protracted, the ideas would have sufficed for a short film.

KAYARA

Watchable. Quite a standard animation about a girl fighting patriarchy to follow her career dream. Attractive, Disneyesque animation.