Presented last year at Cannes Director’s Fortnight, "The State Of The World" (O Estado Do Mundo) is an initiative commissioned by the Gulbenkian Foundation, a Portuguese private institution of public utility whose statutory aims are in the fields of arts, charity, education and science. Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was a petrol magnate of Armenian origin and also a passionate and prolific art collector. For its 50th anniversary, the Gulbenkian Foundation asked six filmmakers to make a 15-minute film: Pedro Costa (Colossal Youth), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Tropical Malady), Chantal Akerman, Wang Bing (West Of The Tracks), Vicente Ferraz (Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano, which examines the creation and exhibition of Kalatozov’s Soy Cuba) and video artist Aysiha Abraham. Pedro Costa introduces here the project during the French premiere in Paris.

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