A lost friend, reconstituted in flights of imagination from postcards, is newly traced in the present, creating remnants of a new absence. Ferreira is a mentor in Rotterdam’s Raiding Africa project, and The Foreigner was edited by 2011’s Short Profile director, Sandro Aguilar.
Also in this combined programme
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Angela
Successful young man allows himself to get dragged into bad things by his addict ex-girlfriend. Great acting in this convincing Swiss graduation fi
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Lisboa-Província
In this quietly poetic film, Maria do Céu returns beyond the Tagus to fertile, polyphonic Alentejo and a village she left forty-five years ago for
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Mak
Heart-wrenching, well-acted fiction about a Moldavian teenager and her baby. Her mother makes her give the child up. Cuts to the bone.
Film details
- Country of production
- Portugal
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 18"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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