China, China

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
2007
Portugal
FIC
19′

Synopsis

China walks towards the Martim Moniz district, in Lisbon. When she passes the children scream: "China, China!". China is going to fly. To escape far away at dawn. She just wants to be happy. But China driinks her own poison. She drinks it all. Sometimes the air seems loaded with evil and the purgatory is a kindergarden.

João Pedro Rodrigues

UM QUARTO NA CIDADE OÙ EN ÊTES-VOUS, JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES ? IEC LONG O CORPO DE AFONSO MAHJONG MANHÃ DE SANTO ANTÓNIO ALVORADA VERMELHA CHINA, CHINA

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João Rui Guerra da Mata

UM QUARTO NA CIDADE IEC LONG MAHJONG O QUE ARDE CURA ALVORADA VERMELHA CHINA, CHINA

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Original Title: CHINA, CHINA
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Producer: João Figueiras, BLACKMARIA, Produção Audiovisual
Script: João Rui Guerra da Mata
Editing: Rui Mourão
Photography: Rui Poças
Sound: Nuno Carvalho
Original Language: Mandarin, Portuguese
Subtitles: French, English

Film Statistics

4326 Spectators
100 Festival Selections
82 Exhibitions
5 Awards

Awards and Selections

07.2007: Curtas Vila do Conde IFF, Portugal
08.2007: São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
08.2007: Tinklai International Short Film Festival, Lithuania
09.2007: IMAGO – International Young Film Festival, Portugal
10.2007: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, Canada
10.2007: Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia
10.2007: Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - CURTA CINEMA, Brazil; Prize Cachaça Cinema Clube Internacional
10.2007: Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Film, France
10.2007: Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain
11.2007: UNLIMITED - Filmfestival for International Shortfilms, Germany; 2nd Jury Award (European Competition)
11.2007: Brest European Short Film Festival, France
11.2007: Entrevues - Festival du Film Belfort, France; Great Prize Foreigner Short Film
11.2007: International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain
12.2007: Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
01.2008: Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, Germany
02.2008: Mons International Love Film Festival, Belgium
02.2008: Oporto International Film Festival - Fantasporto, Portugal
02.2008: European Short Film Festival (FEC Cambrils-Réus), Spain
03.2008: Mediterranean Festival of New Film Makers, Larissa, Greece; Special Mention of the Jury [Mediterranean Competition]
04.2008: NexT International Short and Medium Length Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
05.2008: Festival Ibérico de Cinema de Badajoz, Spain
05.2008: Caminhos do Cinema Português XV, Portugal; Honour Mention
06.2008: Adana Golden Boll International Short Film Competition for Mediterranean Countries, Turkey
06.2008: Huesca International Film Festival, Spain
06.2008: Short Mediterranean Film Festival of Tangier, Morocco
08.2008: International Short&Animation Film Festival Open Cinema, Russia
10.2008: Warsaw Film Festival, Poland
10.2008: Ourense International Independent Film Festival, Spain
11.2008: Short Shorts México, Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de la Ciudad de México, Mexico
11.2008: Media 10-10, Festival du Court Métrage Namur, Belgium
11.2008: Janela Internacional de Cinema in Recife, Brazil
04.2009: Nice Short Film Festival, France
04.2009: Nice Short Film Festival, France
11.2009: Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil
11.2009: Toronto International Film Festival, Canada
11.2009: Ovarvídeo - Festival de Vídeo de Ovar, Portugal
03.2010: Las Palmas International Film Festival, Spain
03.2010: Early Melons International Student Film Festival, Slovakia
11.2010: Corona Cork Film Festival, Ireland
03.2011: Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Netherlands
04.2012: Jeonju International Film Festival, Korea
03.2013: Macau Literary Festival, Macau
04.2013: Curtas e Vinho Verde, Portugal
09.2013: Cine Ceará - Festival Ibero-americano de Cinema, Brazil
09.2013: Sendai Short Film Festival, Japan
06.2014: FICH ? International Festival of Chinese, Portuguese and Portuguese speaking, Portugal
02.2015: Tibilisi - European Festival, Georgia
06.2015: Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan
12.2016: Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
05.2017: Sicilia Queer International LGBT & New Visions Filmfest, Italy

Other Screenings

09.2007: Portuguese Festival Berlin
09.2007: Fenêtre sur le court metrage contemporain - La Cinémathèque Française
10.2007: Olho: Aberto
11.2007: New Portuguese Cinema (Cinema Arsenal)
12.2007: Cachaça Cinema Clube
02.2008: Short Film Market - Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
04.2008: Festibérico Spanish and Portuguese Film Festival
05.2008: Mostra de Cinema Português - Departamento de Português da Universidade de Estudos Estrangeiros de Pequim, Embaixada de Portugal em Pequim
06.2008: Les Lutins du Court Métrage
09.2008: Fairecourt, Atelier 142
12.2008: Cinema Rialto Amsterdam (Special Programme IndieLisboa)
03.2009: Olho: Aberto
05.2009: Kaunasoporto Exchange Jornadas de Arte e Cultura Contemporânea Portuguesa
07.2009: Fitas Na Rua
09.2009: Programa Especial Português Curtas Vila do Conde - Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
05.2010: Cinema Nun'Álvares
05.2010: Cine Alvalade
06.2010: Serralves em Festa
09.2010
09.2010: Leitorado do Instituto Camões na Universidade de Georgetown
10.2010: Brazilian and Portuguese Film Series
10.2010: Ciclo de Cinema, no Centro de Língua Portuguesa na Universidade de Hamburgo
11.2010: Centro de Língua do Instituto Camões de Goa
03.2011: Espalha Fitas
04.2011: Ciclo de Curtas - Helsínquia
05.2011: Universidade Livre de Bruxelas
06.2011: Mostra na Cinemateca de Zagrebe "Cinema Tuskanac"
06.2011: TIFF Bell Lightbox
08.2011: Ciclo de Cinema - CCB Fora de Si
11.2011
06.2012: VII Congresso Português de Sociologia
06.2012: Mostra Cinema Português Contemporâneo - Brasil
07.2012: Clube de Cinema da Escola Básica 1,2,3 de Peniche
09.2012: Festival do Rio
01.2013: Cinema Spoutnik
03.2013: Joao Pedro Rodrigues Retrospective - Japan
09.2013: João Pedro Rodrigues Retrospective - Yamaguchi
09.2013: Film Society of Lincoln Center
11.2014: Cinemateca Portuguesa em Novembro
10.2016: Mostra - L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Yokohama
10.2016: João Pedro Rodrigues - Tokyo
11.2016: João Pedro Rodrigues at the Centre Pompidou
03.2017: Cinemateca Portuguesa - Março
03.2017: João Pedro Rodrigues - Instituto Moreira Salles
09.2017: Cinéma ABC - Switzerland
08.2018: Fictions of the Real in Portuguese Cinema - Dokufest
10.2020: Shortcutz Leiria - Outubro
10.2022: Film Archive of Toulouse - João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata program
02.2023: Batalha Centro de Cinema - February

TV Screenings

03.2018: NOS Tv Cine