PROGRAM
Fuck the Polis
International Feature Film Competition
A nostalgic and experimental tone pervades the new film by Portuguese director Rita Azevedo Gomes, who in 2024 returned to Greece accompanied by five young people to relive a personal experience that had taken place 17 years earlier, when the diagnosis of a terminal illness changed her life. The story, which takes its title from a poem by João Miguel Fernandes Jorge -himself inspired by graffiti- deliberately distances itself from conventional structures of contemporary cinema. Instead, it relies on the integration of dance, music, and ancestral traditions to unfold an original audiovisual choreography that becomes a rewarding exercise in creative freedom.

Rita Azevedo Gomes
Rita Azevedo Gomes is a Portuguese filmmaker with an intense artistic career spanning cinema, theatre, opera and visual arts. She made her directorial debut with The Sound of the Shaking Earth (1989), and firmly established herself with Fragile as the World (2001). Her filmography includes works such as A Woman’s Revenge (2010), Correspondences (2016), The Portuguese Woman (2018) and Danses Macabres, Skeletons and Other Fantasies (2019).
Technical Data Sheet:
D: Rita Azevedo Gomes
G: Rita Azevedo Gomes, Regina Guimarães
F: Bingham Bryant, Maria Novo, Rita Azevedo Gomes
E: Laura Gama Martins, Rita Azevedo Gomes
S: João Sarantopoulos, Branko Neskov
M: Alexander Zekke
P: Rita Azevedo Gomes
CP: Basilisco Filmes
I: Bingham Bryant, Mauro Soares, João Sarantopoulos, Maria Novo, Rita Azevedo Gomes, Loukianos Moshonas, Maria Farantouri
Contact:
Basilisco Filmes. Rita Azevedo Gomes
E: basilisco.filmes@gmail.com
IG: @basilisco.filmes