In Association with Embassy of Portugal and Cultural Centre New Delhi, Indo Cine Appreciation is organizing a Portugese Film Festival where  noted films by contemporary Portuguese directors will be screened. The five-day film fest is scheduled to start on 21 September.

The inaugural film Call Girl directed by António-Pedro Vasconcelos is the story of a powerful entrepreneur, who wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova but discovers that the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations.

Not one to give up, he even hires a prostitute to persuade the mayor. His encounters with bureaucracy forms the crux of Call Girl. The films scheduled on 22 September are Black and White and Octane.

Black and White by José Carlos de Oliveira tells the story of a  46-year old white man, a Portuguese Colonial Army sergeant, born and brought up in Mozambique, who has never been to Portugal and a 27-year old black man, born and brought up in Lisbon, where he got a University degree, who has never been to Africa.

The two meet in Mozambique, where the black man has gone to fight in the Liberation Army and becomes a prisoner of the white man.

Octane is a film about two strangers ,a man and a woman, who meet at a gas station of a highway. In spite of not knowing each other she wants to go with him. Their life’s journey is told in the film.

On 23 September, the films Dot.com and Bad Blood will be screened. When a tiny village confronts a large multinational corporation, everyone needs to remain united. The residents of this village wish to register their name in a domain and thus goes on the story of Dot.com.

In Bad Blood directed by Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra, a doctor and his family move from the city into an old country mansion inherited from his great uncle.

Soon, he finds that his neighbours are steeped in fearful superstitions concerning the doctor’s distant ancestors, who murdered the family of the farmer who previously owned the land.

The Mystery of Sintra by Orge Paixão da Costa and April Captains by Maria de Medeiros will be screened on 24 September.  In the late 19th century, two writers imagine and publish a mystery serial that turns out to be closer to a true-life case then thought to be impossible.

This is the plot of The Mystery of Sintra. April Captains deals with the coup of 1974 that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship.
 
The concluding film is The Uncertainty Principle directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It is the story of a widow, who remarries and starts a new family.

All the films will be screened at South Indian Film Chamber Theatre.