Boutique world sales outfit The Yellow Affair has boarded the Portuguese crime thriller “Irreversible,” produced by prestige outfit Caracol Studios for pubcaster Rtp.
The upcoming six-part TV show was showcased among 10 exclusive titles at this week’s MipDrama at MipTV in Cannes.
Created and helmed by the multi-awarded Bruno Gascon, the thought-provoking series tackles pressing issues such as mental health, illegal adoptions, bullying, homophobia and motherhood. In the title roles are Margarida Vila-Nova, Rafael Morais, and Laura Dutra.
We follow the tormented psychologist Júlia Mendes and inspector Pedro Sousa as they team up to solve a brutal homicide involving a young girl in a coastal town. As they unravel the crime, they battle their own personal demons and strive to keep their lives intact.
In a town where everyone hides something and is willing to do anything to protect their loved ones, the quest for truth may be a costly exercise for Júlia.
The upcoming six-part TV show was showcased among 10 exclusive titles at this week’s MipDrama at MipTV in Cannes.
Created and helmed by the multi-awarded Bruno Gascon, the thought-provoking series tackles pressing issues such as mental health, illegal adoptions, bullying, homophobia and motherhood. In the title roles are Margarida Vila-Nova, Rafael Morais, and Laura Dutra.
We follow the tormented psychologist Júlia Mendes and inspector Pedro Sousa as they team up to solve a brutal homicide involving a young girl in a coastal town. As they unravel the crime, they battle their own personal demons and strive to keep their lives intact.
In a town where everyone hides something and is willing to do anything to protect their loved ones, the quest for truth may be a costly exercise for Júlia.
- 4/10/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Portuguese auteur João Canijo (San Sebastián winner “Blood of My Blood”) has a brace of films at the Berlin Film Festival in 2023. “Bad Living” is in competition while its companion piece “Living Bad” is in the Encounters strand.
“Bad Living” follows five conflicted women who are operating an old family-run hotel, trying to save it from going under. The unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments. “Living Bad,” which plays out like the reverse shot of “Bad Living,” follows the stories of three groups of guests in the same hotel with glimpses of what transpires in the first film.
The genesis of the films go back to “Blood of My Blood” (2011), where the lives of a family living in the outskirts of Lisbon are disrupted within a short period of time.
“‘Blood of My Blood’ was supposed to be two...
“Bad Living” follows five conflicted women who are operating an old family-run hotel, trying to save it from going under. The unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments. “Living Bad,” which plays out like the reverse shot of “Bad Living,” follows the stories of three groups of guests in the same hotel with glimpses of what transpires in the first film.
The genesis of the films go back to “Blood of My Blood” (2011), where the lives of a family living in the outskirts of Lisbon are disrupted within a short period of time.
“‘Blood of My Blood’ was supposed to be two...
- 2/20/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
One of the most fascinating, ambitious cinematic projects premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival this month comes from Portuguese director João Canijo, who will be debuting a pair of connected films in different sections. First up, his Competition selection Mal Viver (Bad Living) draws inspiration from the plays of Strindberg and films of Rivette in telling the story of five women who are running a decaying hotel. Then the Encounters election Viver Mal (Living Bad) is set in the same location, but from the viewpoint of the guests. Ahead of the premieres, we’re thrilled to exclusively debut the first trailers.
With the same creative team behind both films, including cinematographer Leonor Teles, editor João Braz, sound team of Elsa Ferreira and Tiago Raposinho, production designer Nádia Henriques, and costumer designer Silvia Siopa, the cast of Mal Viver features Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco, Madalena Almeida, Cleia Almeida, and Vera Barreto,...
With the same creative team behind both films, including cinematographer Leonor Teles, editor João Braz, sound team of Elsa Ferreira and Tiago Raposinho, production designer Nádia Henriques, and costumer designer Silvia Siopa, the cast of Mal Viver features Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco, Madalena Almeida, Cleia Almeida, and Vera Barreto,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Sales agent M-Appeal has released the trailer (below) for “A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On,” the second feature film by Gentian Koçi. It will world premiere in competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival later in November, and is Albania’s entry for the Academy Awards.
“A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On” is an emotional drama, set in Tirana. Agim and Gëzim, identical twins in their thirties, have a strong bond of brotherly love. They are deaf, but this doesn’t get in the way of their everyday life. One day they receive the diagnosis that they will also lose their sight, and they are confronted with their changing relationship to the world.
The narrative-driven film is led by strong performances from Portuguese twin actors Edgar Morais and Rafael Morais, as well as Drita Kabashi who plays the role of Gëzim’s girlfriend Ana. Koçi defines...
“A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On” is an emotional drama, set in Tirana. Agim and Gëzim, identical twins in their thirties, have a strong bond of brotherly love. They are deaf, but this doesn’t get in the way of their everyday life. One day they receive the diagnosis that they will also lose their sight, and they are confronted with their changing relationship to the world.
The narrative-driven film is led by strong performances from Portuguese twin actors Edgar Morais and Rafael Morais, as well as Drita Kabashi who plays the role of Gëzim’s girlfriend Ana. Koçi defines...
- 11/10/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Stephanie Vogt is set as a lead in Glória, Netflix’s upcoming historical spy thriller drama series from SPi productions and Rtp.
Written by Pedro Lopes and directed by Tiago Guedes, Glória takes place in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in the small village of Glória do Ribatejo, where Raret is located, an American broadcasting center that broadcasts Western propaganda to the Eastern Bloc. João Vidal, an engineer from families linked to the Estado Novo, but recruited by the Kgb, will take on several high-risk espionage missions that could change the course of Portuguese and world history.
Vogt will play Anne. The wife of James, Anne comes from a wealthy and liberal family. She is a Harvard grad in International Relations, recruited by the CIA.
The ensemble cast includes Portuguese and international actors, including Miguel Nunes, Carolina Amaral, Victoria Guerra, Afonso Pimentel, Adriano Luz, Joana Ribeiro,...
Written by Pedro Lopes and directed by Tiago Guedes, Glória takes place in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in the small village of Glória do Ribatejo, where Raret is located, an American broadcasting center that broadcasts Western propaganda to the Eastern Bloc. João Vidal, an engineer from families linked to the Estado Novo, but recruited by the Kgb, will take on several high-risk espionage missions that could change the course of Portuguese and world history.
Vogt will play Anne. The wife of James, Anne comes from a wealthy and liberal family. She is a Harvard grad in International Relations, recruited by the CIA.
The ensemble cast includes Portuguese and international actors, including Miguel Nunes, Carolina Amaral, Victoria Guerra, Afonso Pimentel, Adriano Luz, Joana Ribeiro,...
- 2/15/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Rafael Morais and Ana Lopes will be toplining the cast of the director’s new project, produced by Ukbar Filmes and distributed by Nos Audiovisuais. Vicente Alves do Ó has started shooting Amadeo, an intimate and personal portrait of Portuguese painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. After Florbela (2012) and Al Berto (2017), in which Alves do Ó depicted the lives of two Portuguese poets – Florbela Espanca and Al Berto – the director is once again preparing to portray yet another important figure in the Portuguese artistic and cultural scene. Amadeo de Souza Cardoso was born in 1887, in Manhufe. He lived and worked in Paris for most of his life, returning to Portugal at the beginning of World War I. There, he lived in Espinho with his family until he died in 1918. The film will depict three key moments in Amadeo’s life: the city of Paris at the beginning...
- 11/27/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Bloodletting: Canijo’s Latest a Masterwork of Familial Upheaval
Portuguese director Joao Canijo returns with his eighth feature, Blood of My Blood, (his first fictional outing since 2007’s Misbegotten) a sprawling, all consuming portrait of one week in the life a matriarchal run familial unit in the slums outside Lisbon, and may indeed be his masterpiece. Inevitably, there’s no denying a comparison of technique with Altman and Mike Leigh (Canijo spent two years developing the characters with the actors via a series of workshops as Leigh does), but the film stands quite firmly as an often uncomfortable, unpleasant, and always fascinating family saga that would, in a fair world, finally open up the English speaking market to Canijo’s previous directorial efforts, which date back to the early 80s.
In Padre Cruz, a slum on the edge of Lisbon, the Fialho clan, whose workable, but makeshift daily existence is about to be severely shaken.
Portuguese director Joao Canijo returns with his eighth feature, Blood of My Blood, (his first fictional outing since 2007’s Misbegotten) a sprawling, all consuming portrait of one week in the life a matriarchal run familial unit in the slums outside Lisbon, and may indeed be his masterpiece. Inevitably, there’s no denying a comparison of technique with Altman and Mike Leigh (Canijo spent two years developing the characters with the actors via a series of workshops as Leigh does), but the film stands quite firmly as an often uncomfortable, unpleasant, and always fascinating family saga that would, in a fair world, finally open up the English speaking market to Canijo’s previous directorial efforts, which date back to the early 80s.
In Padre Cruz, a slum on the edge of Lisbon, the Fialho clan, whose workable, but makeshift daily existence is about to be severely shaken.
- 11/4/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Earlier this week, Filminute — the short film competition which Filmmaker partnered with last month — announced the winners of this year’s awards. On the site in September, we featured five one-minute films: Christian Fischer’s Indian Mystery, Stijn Ghijsen and Tara Fallaux’s Sarina, Rafael Morais and Vijessna Ferkic’s Still Here, Ant Blades’ Wildebeest and Jeanne and Louise Traon’s Colloque Sentimental.
Here’s the release:
London/Bucharest/Toronto, October 10, 2012 – Awards for the 7th edition of Filminute, the
international one-minute film festival, were announced today. UK director Ant Blade’s dramatic and
hilarious animation Chop Chop took top honours with the jury, while fellow Brit Ben Jacobson’s
comic thriller, Candy Crime, was the favourite selected by Filminute’s voting public.
The 7-member international jury which included Prasoon Joshi, Radu Jude, Arjun Basu, Lenora Hume
& Gyorgy Karpati, gave animation its strongest year ever at the festival with Best Filminute...
Here’s the release:
London/Bucharest/Toronto, October 10, 2012 – Awards for the 7th edition of Filminute, the
international one-minute film festival, were announced today. UK director Ant Blade’s dramatic and
hilarious animation Chop Chop took top honours with the jury, while fellow Brit Ben Jacobson’s
comic thriller, Candy Crime, was the favourite selected by Filminute’s voting public.
The 7-member international jury which included Prasoon Joshi, Radu Jude, Arjun Basu, Lenora Hume
& Gyorgy Karpati, gave animation its strongest year ever at the festival with Best Filminute...
- 10/12/2012
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Throughout the month of September, Filmmaker is partnering with the online short film competition Filminute, hosting five of its nominated titles and running interviews with the director’s of these one-minute movies.
Tell us who you are (where you’re from, background, previous credits as a filmmaker)
Here’s a little bit about ourselves…
Rafael Morais began acting at the age of 14. At 18 he was cast as the lead in the critically acclaimed feature film How to Draw a Perfect Circle (Official submission to the Academy Awards). Having screened at the Toronto, Palm Springs, Miami, San Sebastian and several other festivals, João Canijo’s Blood of My Blood has already earned him accolades for his portrayal of a young criminal that puts his entire family at stake. Rafael Morais had his directorial debut in 2011 with You are the Blood (official selection of IndieLisboa and NewFilm Makers Los Angeles). Rafael Morais...
Tell us who you are (where you’re from, background, previous credits as a filmmaker)
Here’s a little bit about ourselves…
Rafael Morais began acting at the age of 14. At 18 he was cast as the lead in the critically acclaimed feature film How to Draw a Perfect Circle (Official submission to the Academy Awards). Having screened at the Toronto, Palm Springs, Miami, San Sebastian and several other festivals, João Canijo’s Blood of My Blood has already earned him accolades for his portrayal of a young criminal that puts his entire family at stake. Rafael Morais had his directorial debut in 2011 with You are the Blood (official selection of IndieLisboa and NewFilm Makers Los Angeles). Rafael Morais...
- 9/12/2012
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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