Supported by Camões Institute and the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), the 12th edition of Festlip will bring together artists from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor for shows, dramatic readings, theater, film screenings, debates, children's programming, exhibition and 'gourmet' show.
The artistic content will be transmitted free of charge live, over the Internet, through the digital channels of FESTLIP_On: facebook.com/festlip and youtube.com/festlip.
This year's program includes singers, composers and instrumentalists Paulo Matomina and Abel Dueré, from Angola, the Brazilian singer based in Portugal Luanda Cozetti and his group, Couple Coffee, DJ Mam, from Brazil, singer and musician John D ' Brava, from Cape Verde, singer Iragrett Tavares, from Guinea-Bissau, singer, songwriter and drummer Otis Selimane, from Mozambique, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Yami, from Portugal, and singer, songwriter and guitarist Tonecas Prazeres , from São Tomé and Príncipe.
The "Som da Língua" program is scheduled for the 18th and 20th, with three artists per day, in presentations of 15 minutes each, and at the end of the day, a 'chat' will take place between the musicians.
Right on the 18th, during the opening of the festival, Festlip_On will present the theatrical show "A Terceira Margem do Rio", by Guimarães Rosa, a play featuring actors from nine Portuguese-speaking countries and which was directed by Brazilian set designer Paulo de Moraes "in an unprecedented way": the rehearsals took place over a month, via Skype, and the show was set up in person in five days, in Brazil, in 2017.
On the 21st, Brazilian director Moacyr Góes presents the production "Ibsen Venusianas", with the participation of Brazilian actress Tânia Pires, Mozambican actor Horácio Guiamba and Portuguese actress Susana Vitorino.
The debate "The female voice in the Portuguese language and in our societies", which takes place within FESTLIPencontros, will be mediated by the Brazilian researcher and master in communication Maria Amélia Paiva Abrão, with the activists Cátia Terrinca, from Portugal, Loló Arziki, from Cape Verde , and Solange Salvaterra, from São Tomé and Príncipe, as guests.
As part of the cinema program (FESTLIPcine), on the 19th, the short film "Beleléu" will be presented, based on the book "A Deus", by Leonardo Miranda.
Children also have space in this program through FESTLIPinho, which presents the unpublished children's short film "Blob - The day the planet changed", filmed especially for the digital language during quarantine, directed by Maria Clara Wermelinger.
FESTLIPgourmet, which throughout the 11 previous editions revealed culinary specialties from Portuguese-speaking countries, in menus created especially for the festival by the 'chefs' of the partner restaurants, presents this year "Doçuras de Portugal".
Two events will be available in FESTLIP_On's social media video rooms over the six-day program.
One of these events is the FESTLIPexpo, a photo exhibition made available by the Camões Institute, under the theme "Portuguese cinema", with images that outline a panorama of the more than one hundred years of Portuguese cinema, highlighting its diversity and the periods of greatest vitality .
The other initiative is entitled "Peripécias Poéticas", and brings together "Pílulas de Poesia": videos with poems from Portuguese-speaking countries interpreted by actress Elena Iyanga, from Equatorial Guinea.
