The MMIFF Festival is a fantastic festival for creative, international and auteur cinema with an artistic claim. We present fantastic and surreal films from all over the world. With a limited capacity of 150 guests, this intimate and unique Festival is set to be a magical and adventurous experience for cineastes. The fifth edition of MMiFF | Madeira Micro Film Festival 2016 will again take place at Cine Sol, a wonderful Art Deco cinema nestled atop a cliff. The cinema, which is almost 100 years old with spectacular views over the Atlantic Ocean is located in the sleepy, seaside village of “Ponta Do Sol”, on the volcanic island of Madeira. The village and its surroundings evoke culturally rich days gone by, preserved like a ghost town, with a mystical air eerily reminiscent of something out of the work of Lynch or Cronenberg. Tuesday, 06/12/2016 | MADEIRADIG <> MMiFF SPECIAL Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016 / Documentary / USA / 100 min) by Tyler Hubby with Tony Conrad, John Cale and David Grubbs. 22:30 at Cine Sol. Tony Conrad was one the great American artists of our time, yet to the world at large he remains criminally under appreciated. Utilizing intimate footage of Tony and his collaborators shot over the last twenty-two years, as well as his own archive of recordings and films, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present mirrors Conrad’s own playfully radical approach to art making. The non-linear structure allows Conrad to wildly free associate his streams of consciousness, revealing an honest and humane way of navigating a remarkable, creative life. Tony sat as head of jury at MMIFF in 2014 and took the stage at Cine Sol to announce the winning film. Tony passed away in April of this year, and this special screening will be in his honor. Wednesday, 07/12/2016 | MMiFF OPENING 18:30 | Cocktail Opening / Soirée Under the Shadow (2016 / Horror / UK / 84min) by Babak Anvari with Narges Rashidi, Bobby Naderi and Avin Manshadi. 21:00 at Cine Sol. Shideh and her family live amid the chaos of the Iran-Iraq war. Accused of subversion by the post-Revolution government and blacklisted from medical college, she falls into a state of malaise. With Tehran under the constant threat of aerial bombardment, her husband (Bobby Naderi) is drafted and sent to the frontlines by the army, leaving Shideh all alone to protect their young daughter, Dorsa (Avin Manshadi). Soon after he leaves, Shideh finds herself slowly drawn into the ensuing turmoil, struggling to cling onto what is real and what is not. Convinced that a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess Dorsa, Shideh has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself. 23:00 | Cine Sol Bar Opening Thursday, 08/12/2016 Psiconautas, the Forgotten Children (2015 / Drama / Spain / 86min) by Nikias Chryssos with Pit Bukowski, Daniel Fripan and Oona von Maydell. 18:30 at Cine Sol. Aimed at young and adult audiences, Psychonautas tells an intense poetic and social story through animation. Teenagers Birdboy and Dinky have decided to escape from an island devastated by ecological catastrophe: Birdboy by shutting himself off from the world, Dinky by setting out on a dangerous voyage in the hope that Birdboy will accompany her. Aloys (2016 / Drama|Fantasy / Germany / 91min) by Tobias Nölle with Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck and Kamil Krejcí. 22:30 at John dos Passos. A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as ‚telephone walking‘. She offers to return the tapes if Aloys will try an obscure Japanese invention called ‚telephone walking‘ with her, using his imagination as their only connection. As he is drawn deeper and deeper, falling in love with the voice on the other end of the phone, the woman opens up a new universe that may allow Aloys to break out of his isolation and into the real world. Friday, 09/12/2016 Phantom Boy (2015 / Drama / Spain / 84min) by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol. 18:30 at Cine Sol. The writing-directing duo behind the Academy Award-nominated A Cat in Paris returns with this marvellously animated adventure. Hospitalized with a serious illness, 11-year-old Leo discovers that he is able to leave his body and fly around the city, passing through walls just like a phantom. When a mob kingpin takes control of New York City’s power supply, Leo partners with a disabled police officer and a fearless reporter and races against time to save the city. The Alchemist Cookbook The Alchemist Cookbook (2016 / Drama/Horror / USA / 86min) by Joel Potrykus with Ty Hickson and Amari Cheatom. 22:30 at John dos Passos. Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for authority, he’s fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secret, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous. 00:00 | Ponta do sol village party Saturday, 10/12/2016 Death by Death / Je me tue à le dire (2016 / Comedy / Belgium/France / 90min) by Xavier Seron with Myriam Boyer, Jean-Jacques Rausin and Serge Riaboukine. 21:00 at Cine Sol. A hypochondriac mother/son duo fears the worst in this gorgeously stylized absurdist comedy from Belgium. Michel, an unsuccessful actor only moderately better as an appliance store employee, obsesses over death at the expense of enjoying life. Splitting his attention between a mother who refuses to move into an elder-care facility (she couldn’t leave behind her phalanx of feline children, see) and a girlfriend with renewed interest in her more successful ex, Michel can barely find the time to tend to his own neuroses. Gorgeous black-and-white cinematography pairs with hilarious deadpan humor in this award-winning, off-kilter comedy. 23:00 | Closing Party And check out our impressions from 2015: flic.kr/s/aHskEGMD1t Save the date and join us for probably the most beautiful boutique film festival in the world: mmiff.com
