Macau | Ivo M. Ferreira's movie Hotel Império to premier in Mainland China macaubusiness.com/macau-ivo-m-ferreiras-movie-hotel-imperio-to-premier-in-mainland-china 03 October 2018
MNALUSA03 Oct 2018
The film Hotel Império by Portuguese director Ivo M. Ferreira will have a world premiere at the Pingyao Film Festival, which starts on October 11 in Mainland China, the movie's production company O Som e a Fúria revealed
Hotel Império was filmed in Macau, where Ivo M. Ferreira has lived for many years, and tells the story of a Portuguese born in the city – interpreted by Margarida Vila-Nova – who, together with other people, inhabits an old hotel on its way to being destroyed to make room for a modern building. In 2016, when he presented the film project at the Macao International Film Festival, Ivo Ferreira explained that the feature film has a recurring and very present theme in the life of the city: the accelerated change of space, driven development. “The hotel evidently has a symbolic burden on Macau, it will be destroyed to build a casino hotel. It has to do with the (…) erosion of the city [which] can create an identity, erosion can unite us, unite neighbors who did not speak. I think the film gravitates pretty much 1/2