Projeto Première Acessível: Extensão, Ensino e Pesquisa em Legendagem

This Friday, 22 September, the Cinédito film club is showing two feature films translated and subtitled by students involved in the Première Acessível project: “Jump Tomorrow” (directed by Joel Hopkins, 2001), at 2pm, and “The Embalmer” (directed by Matteo Garrone, 2002), at 4pm. The screenings are part of Experimenta – Blooming Spring, a cultural event organised by SeCArTE (Office of Culture, Arts and Sports), and will take place in the screening room of the Film Studies Laboratory (LEC), located in room 108 of CCE’s building D.

In “Jump Tomorrow” we witness the tragicomic journey of George, a young Nigerian man about to be engaged in a marriage arranged by his family. At the airport where he is supposed to meet his would-be partner, George meets Alicia, a Latina who flirts with him and invites him to a party, and Gerard, a disconsolate Frenchman who has just had a marriage proposal rejected, characters who will make George question his decisions on his way to Niagara Falls, where he is supposed to meet his future wife. Winner of a BAFTA award in the best director category and nominated for five awards at the British Independent Film Awards.

In “The Embalmer” — a film inspired by an Italian criminal case and winner of 16 awards — a lonely taxidermist and his youthful new assistant become involved in a morbid professional and personal relationship, aggravated by the arrival of a woman. This is a strong and intense film, unequivocally noir, where cynicism feeds in any way the development of the story and characters that are paradoxically innocent. Deliberately eerie and disturbing, always accompanied by the shadow of death, this movie transforms the current events in a romantic-aesthetic dimension based on the axiom between love and death.