“BAIT” 2019 | 1h29’ [UK] | OVERTOURISM | GENTRIFICATION Cinema Screenings

Ciclo TURISTIFICAÇÃO | GENTRIFICAÇÃO

[OVERTOURISM | GENTRIFICATION Cinema Screenings]
Curadoria de Alexandre Braga

“BAIT” 2019 | M/16 | 1h29’ [UK] (Provocação - PT)
De Mark Jenkin
Sexta Dia 26/06 às 19h30 [Friday 06/26 at 7:30pm]
Numa vila costeira inglesa transformada pelo turismo, um pescador luta para preservar a sua forma de vida tradicional. Filmado em 16mm granulado, o filme expõe o conflito entre comunidade, memória e gentrificação.

In a coastal English village reshaped by tourism, a fisherman struggles to preserve his traditional way of life. Shot on grainy 16mm, the film reveals tensions between community, memory, and gentrification.

Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese

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‍In recent years, Lisbon has become one of the most desired cities in Europe. Yet this transformation — often celebrated as a sign of modernity, revitalization, or economic success — has also brought with it an increasingly visible tension: the growing difficulty of remaining. Between unaffordable rents, historic neighborhoods turned into temporary accommodation zones, traditional commerce replaced by an internationalized aesthetic, and communities slowly displaced toward the outskirts, a strange feeling begins to emerge — the sense that certain cities are ceasing to exist as lived places and are instead becoming consumable images.

This phenomenon does not belong to Lisbon alone. It echoes through Porto, the Algarve, coastal cities, rural areas transformed into tourist destinations, and even small territories beginning to reorganize themselves around an economy of constant circulation. Overtourism and gentrification do not merely alter buildings or prices: they reshape rhythms of life, human relationships