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The Festival du Nouveau Cinema has barely started and I already feel behind. Press screenings have been going on for over a week, and I missed many due to work. It doesn’t help that the first I show up to, a screening of Jauja, was cancelled due to a problem with the digital file. I …

Alvorada Vermelha – Red Dawn Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata 28 minutes, 2011 A documentary on a meat market in Macao evokes question of life, death and morality. Opening with a high heeled shoe in foreground in a presentation of the mundane, we are introduced to our world under the …