Director Filipe Afonso

Countries Portugal

Duration 13 min

Synopsis
This video takes place in the café under my apartment runed by a chinese family. I am the only portuguese living in this building, located in lisbon. it’s a small sample of a global village, so much spoken nowadays. I started to shoot without noticing them and suddenly some unexpected things happened (on the tv, on the characters, things customers said to me,…). I position myself in this suddenly strange place and try to know it and its people. The film will experience and will try to tell this process. How would one relate to a strange/foreign place (this one can be either the actor or the character or even me, or all of them as well). We must notice that in this context we’re privileged to have more contact opportunities with the other, but do we really take