Looking ahead to 2018’s Portuguese films cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/345033
DISTRIBUTION Portugal by Vitor Pinto 11/01/2018 - We present a non-exhaustive list of local productions and co-productions set to hit the theatres this year
Luís Ismael’s Bad Investigate will be the first local feature to hit screens in 2018 (© Lightbox) Several Portuguese feature-length productions or co-productions are set to get local theatrical distribution during 2018. The list includes mostly brand-new material, but also several films that were previously unveiled at local and international festivals in 2017. The first release of 2018 is scheduled for 18 January: the Lightbox production Bad Investigate [+] sees director Luís Ismael return to the big screen six years after the last part of the hit trilogy Balas & Bolinhos. Nos Audiovisuais is handling the distribution of this copfilm parody starring Spanish actor Enrique Arce as a dangerous gangster named “El Dedo”. (The article continues below - Commercial information) Aparição [+] by Fernando Vendrell, based on Virgílio Ferreira’s existentialist novel, will be unveiled at Fantasporto in February and is expected to reach theatres in the spring. Other titles arriving after March are Bruno de Almeida’s Cabaret Maxime, starring Michael 1/2