The people dotting Leonor Teles’ shorts are all caught in the midst of seismic transformations, drifters who watch their home turfs push them away and change at mind-blowing speed. Her Berlinale-winning Batrachian’s Ballad (2016) offered an incendiary study of the Romani experience in present-day Portugal filtered through the prism of Teles’ own roots in the local Ciganos community; Ashore (2018) tailed an aging fisherman from a riverfront village perched between tradition and modernity; and Dogs Barking at Birds (2019) followed a working-class family wrestling with the capital’s rampant gentrification. Thai for “home,” the title of Teles’ feature debut literalizes a preoccupation that’s been at the cornerstone of all the director’s films. In its barest terms, Baan is a chronicle of a tumultuous romance stretching across weeks and time zones, but it’s also and most significantly a snapshot of 21st-century restlessness, a portrait of two young wanderers for whom...
- 8/14/2023
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Locarno — Brazil’s Pandora Filmes, one of the country’s premier independent distributors, has secured Brazilian distribution rights to “Tomorrow’s Rain”(“Amanhã Já Não Chove”), a Portuguese portrait of bourgeois malaise which was brought onto the market last weekend at the Locarno Festival’s Match Me!
Pandora Filmes’ distribution slate takes in “Parasite,” “The Man Who Sold His Skin,” and “R.M.N.”
Set up at Lisbon’s Omaja and Brazil’s Capuri, which cut the deal with Pandora, “Tomorrow Rain” marks the fiction feature debut of Portuguese director-producer Bernardo Lopes at Omaja, a 2021 Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Award winner for his short “Moço.”
Produced by Lopes and Eduardo Rezende, “Tomorrow’s Rain”will star José Pimentão, who played Ramiro in Netflix’s “1899,” and João Nunes Monteiro, a Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Award winner best actor award winner for “Mosquito” in 2021 and best supporting actor winner last year for “The Tsugua Diaries.
Pandora Filmes’ distribution slate takes in “Parasite,” “The Man Who Sold His Skin,” and “R.M.N.”
Set up at Lisbon’s Omaja and Brazil’s Capuri, which cut the deal with Pandora, “Tomorrow Rain” marks the fiction feature debut of Portuguese director-producer Bernardo Lopes at Omaja, a 2021 Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Award winner for his short “Moço.”
Produced by Lopes and Eduardo Rezende, “Tomorrow’s Rain”will star José Pimentão, who played Ramiro in Netflix’s “1899,” and João Nunes Monteiro, a Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Award winner best actor award winner for “Mosquito” in 2021 and best supporting actor winner last year for “The Tsugua Diaries.
- 8/9/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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