Come and meet Joao Rodrigues, one of the directors selected for the 13th Edition of the Festival du film Merveilleux.

Joao Rodrigues

João Rodrigues (1981, Porto) His graduation short “Black & White” was selected for over 50 film festivals, from Cuba to India. He directed the documentary “Alexandrino” and “The Tile-Jail Toilet-Tale”, founded the “Instant Tanz Company”. In 2014 he directed the short film “Fortunato- from here to S. Torcato” for Guimarães Capital of Culture.

Film in competition: Ana Morphose

Synopsis: A little girl reads herself to sleep. As she dozes off, the physical world starts melting into an alternate reality where the contents of a book rule over the laws of physics. Ana has to escape being swallowed by the overwhelming accumulation of printed knowledge and find her own space in a world where nothing is what it seems.