In addition to debates, lectures, roundtables and conferences, the UIA2021RIO also brings a series of cultural activities.

One of them will be the launch of the documentary A Cidade de Portas, based on the thinking of Portuguese architect Nuno Portas, professor emeritus at the University of Porto.

The documentary will be released exclusively to UIA2021RIO congressmen, at the Mundo dos Filmes session, on July 19, from 8 pm. The film is directed by Humberto Kzure, Brazilian architect and urban planner, and Teresa Prata, Portuguese filmmaker.

About the movie:

“A Cidade de Portas”is a documentary about the city as the frontier of thought by Nuno Portas, visionary architect, urban planner and professor emeritus at the University of Porto – Portugal. His reflections, his architectural and urban projects, as well as the urban plans he coordinated and the books he wrote, raise a deep debate about the city as a cultural object, full of multiple ambiences and spatial contradictions, which reflect and define everyday experience of “being urban”.

The universe of Nuno Portas, born in Vila Viçosa in 1934, began at the Atelier at Rua da Alegria in Lisbon, where he worked with the notable architect Nuno Teotónio Pereira. Portas’ pioneering, blunt and daring ideas materialized as valuable contributions in cities such as Lisbon, Porto, Guimarães, Aveiro, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. In the Portuguese-Brazilian context, the film portrays, through different voices, the multifaceted path of Portas, whose legacy contributes to the enhancement and dissemination of knowledge in Architecture and Urbanism for future generations.

Declaration of directors

Given the importance of Nuno Portas’ contributions to thinking and designing the contemporary city in a sociocultural dimension, the film “A Cidade de Portas” was made with the purpose of documenting and making public, for future generations, the cosmopolitan look of this architect and urban planner Portuguese, whose reflections and works carried out allow for an in-depth analysis of urban space in the global sphere.

Watch the trailer:

About the directors:

HUMBERTO KZURE is Brazilian, architect, urban planner, with a doctorate in Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Bauhaus Universität Weimar – Germany. He is a professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro and recently carried out a post-doctorate on the thought and work of Nuno Portas at three European universities: Porto-Portugal, La Rochelle-France and Vienna-Austria. He received several awards and distinctions in architecture and urbanism. He also has professional training in photography, theater and scenography. He studied Cinema at the Darcy Ribeiro Cinema School – Instituto Brasileiro do Audiovisual. Filmography: “Revertere Ad Locum Tuum” (directed by Humberto Kzure and Katarzyna Mich), “Shock of Order”, “Pasaji”, “Sand” and “The City of Doors” (2021).

TERESA PRATA was born in Portugal. Degree in Biology from the University of Coimbra, and during this period she conceived the video art “Canto Teogónico” with which she won an Honorable Mention at the 1991.

Figueira da Foz International Film Festival. Graduated in script and directing at Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), in Berlin. As a student, he wrote and directed the short films “Uma Questão de Vida or Morte” (1994), “Thousand Eyes, O Sonhador do Oeste” (1996), “Leopoldo” (1999) and “Partem So Tristes, Os Tristes” ( 1999). She is director of photography for the short film “Totensang” by Clara Lopez Rubio, for which she won the prize for Best Photography at the Festival del Cine Experimental in Madrid in 1999.

“Terra Sonâmbula”, based on the novel of the same name by Mozambican writer Mia Couto, whose screenplay is his authorship, is his first feature film and had its world premiere at the Montreal International Film Festival in 2007. This film was commercially distributed in television stations (TCM, ARTE and RTP) and in movie theaters and DVD in Portugal, USA, Canada, UK, South Africa, Benelux, Brazil, Mozambique and Angola. He has also participated in around 45 international film festivals and won the award for Best Film (Film Festival do Paraná 2009, Brazil and FESTin 2010), Best Director (Pune International Film Festival 2008, India), Best Screenplay (Bursa International Film Festival 2008, Turkey and Paraná Film Festival 2009, Brazil), the Fipresci Prize (Kerala International Film Festival 2007, India), the SIGNIS Prize (African Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan 2008, Italy), the Lusofonia Prize for the best literary adaptation (Famafest 2008, Portugal), the Audience Award (Indie Lisboa 2008, Portugal), the SAVE THE CHILDREN Award (African Film Festival of Verona 2008, Italy) and an Honorable Mention from Amnesty International (Indie Lisboa 2008, Portugal). “A Cidade de Portas” (2021) is his first documentary.

Equipe Técnica e Artística

(Documentário, 2021, full HD, cor e p/b, 25 fps, som estéreo, 80 min, Português)

Argumento | Direção HUMBERTO KZURE e TERESA PRATA

Produção PRATA E PRATA LDA (Portugal) e CINEQUADRINESCO (Brasil)

Produtores MIGUEL PRATA e HUMBERTO KZURE

Fotografia EDMUNDO DIAZ SOTELO

Música RODRIGO LEÃO

Montagem de Imagem TERESA PRATA

Design de Som | Mixagem TIAGO RAPOSINHO

Design Gráfico GUSTAVO RACCA

Patrocínio:

CÂMARA MUNICIPAL DE LISBOA

RÁDIO E TELEVISÃO PORTUGUESA (RTP)

FUNDAÇÃO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN

CONSELHO DE ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO/RIO DE JANEIRO

CINEQUADRINESCO

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