“Things happen, they occur and we either take advantage or we don’t. There’s a children’s game that, in Portugal, goes by the name cat’s cradle: the children tie a rope in a circle, then someone’s hand does this, someone else comes along and complicates it somehow, some finger complicates it even more, yet another one comes and twists his intertwined fingers and pulls his hand, and a new figure is formed. This game is called cat’s cradle. I think that what we have, in life, is a perpetual children’s game with the cat’s cradle, that life presents us with a problem, we look to see what we can get out of it, then we stick our fingers in it, we go like this and something else comes out. At best, the ability we can hope to achieve is that of becoming children again, and be able to truly see how the cat‘s cradle turns out.”
Agostinho da Silva
Featuring: Joana Santos
Directed by: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra
Script: Pedro Pinho
Cinematography: Vasco Viana
Sound: João Gazua
Edited by: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra
Editing Consultant: Luísa Homem
Color Grading: Andreia Bertini
Sound Editing: Ruben Costa
Sound Mixing: Branko Neskov
Production Manager: Daniela Soares
Producer: Filipa Reis
Produced by: Vende-se Filmes
Funded by: Câmara Municipal de Setúbal, POR Lisboa, QREN, Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional
Festivals and Awards
IndieLisboa - Festival Internacional de Cinema
International Competition, National Competition, Emerging Cinema (PT 04. 2012)
Prémio de Melhor Curta-Metragem Portuguesa
IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival
Reflecting Images Panorama (NL 11.2012)
Festival dei Popoli, Festival Internazionale del Film Documentario
Concorso Internazionale (IT 11.2012)
Olhar de Cinema, Festival Internacional de Curitiba
Competitiva Internacional de Longas-Metragens (BR 06. 2013)
Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira
(PT 12.2012)
Prémio Revelação
FORUMDOC.BH 2012, Festival do filme documentário e etnográfico, Fórum de Atropologia e Cinema
Mostra Competitiva Internacional (BR 2012)
FESTROIA – Festival Internacional de Cinema
Cinema Português (PT 09.2012)
Shortcutz Lisboa
(PT 06.2013)
Festival Traces de Vies, Festival de Cinéma Documentaire
(FR 27.2013)
Black Movie Film Festival
Tous Les Garçons S’Appellent João (CH 01.2013)
BorDocs – Tijuana Foro Documental
Competencia de largometrajes internacionales Ibero-Americanas (MX 09.2013)
Santander Cultural, Mostra de Cinema Português Contemporâneo
(BR 05.2013)
Doxs! Documentaries for children and youth
European Film Prize Grosse Klappe (DE 11.2013)
The Portuguese Conspiracy
IndieLisboa Film Festival London Sessions (UK 2013)
Kino Muranow, Mostra Kino.pt – Instituto Camões na Polónia
(PL 11.2013)
VI Semana dos Realizadores
Secção IndieLisboa (BR 2013)
Frames – Portuguese Film Festival
Social Tales (SE 02.2017)
Cinemateca Portuguesa
Cinema Português: Novos Olhares I (PT 03.2017)
Close-Up – Observatório de Cinema “Infância e Juventude”, Casa das Artes de Vila Nova de Famalicão
(PT 10.2017)
IberoDocs, Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival Scotland
(UK 04.2018)
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