【 Section 2: Local Directors and Their Inspirational Classics 】Empire Hotel & The Foreigner

2018、2010 / 100‘ / Macao, Portugal / In Portuguese, Cantonese and English with Chinese and English subtitles / Color

Empire Hotel

(Macao, 2018, 82')

Maria’s home has always been the Empire Hotel, in the traditional neighborhood of Macao, where clothes hang between neons, and an entangled net of electric wires takes over streets flooded with vapour. With her aging father, the burden of keeping the decrepit hotel running stands on her shoulders. Disillusioned dreams, greed and decadence: a chronicle of Macao today, 20 years after it’s return to China.

The Foreigner

(Macao, 2010, 18')

A character almost absent from the image searches, in 2009's Macao, for the Foreigner character, someone who lived there fifteen years before. Helped by the letters written to him by the Foreigner during that period and having recently arrived, he tries to find his lost friend reconstituting all that he imagined from the information.

Thus, he traces in the present, the trails the Foreigner left in the past, while creating remnants of a new absence.

About the Director

Ivo M. Ferreira

Born in Lisbon in 1975. His appetite for cinema came early. On a trip through Asia, he reached Macao, where he directed and produced his first documentary. His feature film, Letters From War, based on the book by António Lobo Antunes, premiered at Berlinale 2016 in Official Competition section.

About us

The Cinematheque・Passion is located at Travessa da Paixão which is a narrow and romantic bystreet branching off the famous World Heritage Site "Ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral" (the "St. Paul's Cathedral Site") in the Historic Centre of Macau. A three-storey building equipped with ticket office, screening room, control room, film information room and exhibition space.
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Opening Hours

Ticket Office Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am to 11:30 pm
Film Information Room Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Exhibition Space Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
(Closes on Mondays, opens during public holidays.)

Contact us

Phone (+853) 2852 2585
Email cinematheque.passion@gmail.com
Address No. 9-13 Travessa da Paixão, Macau