As part of the 5th BEAST International Film Festival, OKNA is pleased to be hosting a screening* of Holy Father, a documentary by Andrei Dascalescu, on Sunday, 25 September from 18:00.
HOLY FATHER Andrei Dascalescu | Romania | 2020 | DOC. | 85’ | LEG. PT/EN
*The screening will be followed by a Q&A Session with the director.
Holy Father portrays the story of the filmmaker, Andrei, and his girlfriend, Paula, who will be facing the news of becoming parents. While the future mother is struggling with no worthy role models in her broken family, the soon-to-be father must come to terms with his own, long-lost father, now a monk on Mount Athos. Andrei’s visits to the monastery seek to solve the mystery of his father’s leaving the family when Andrei was only six. Could this be the key to learning how to become the father he never had?
Andrei Dascalescu is an established Romanian documentary film director, cinematographer and editor. All three of his feature-length documentaries, Holy Father (2020), Planeta Petrila (2016) and Constantin and Elena (2008) have won prestigious awards and have been selected in major international film festivals across the world. His most recent documentary, Holy Father (2020) premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where it won the Jury Award. He is the founder and owner of Filmlab production company since 2007. -- BEAST IFF Territories explores the makings and manifestations of the concept of “place” by showcasing films produced in locations stuck in-between the traditional definitions. Through filmmaking and documenting locations with these particular qualities and the stories that unfold inside them, a new meaning is brought to what it means to be grounded in a place. The aim of the programme is to raise a thought about what true aspects make a place and how people's lives can shape it.
With its fifth edition, BEAST International Film Festival returns to the big screens of Porto with a selection primarily aimed at films that have Eastern Europe as its backdrop. While exploring the Balkans, the Baltics and Post-Communist countries, the festival contextualises its work in the context of differentiated debates on film aesthetics, socio-political, and cinematic theoretical topics. BEAST IFF is all about representation of talents, arousing curiosity and questioning common clichés about Eastern Europe.
More info: https://beastfilm.pt/films/holy-father/ Free entry. #beastiff #culturaokna
