Three minutes to break your heart—chess with a ghost you can't outrun.
Man and boy play a futile game of chess in the middle of nowhere. An internal struggle between what is and what can no longer be.
Direction
João Eduardo Santos packs a lifetime of loss into 180 seconds.
Director
João Eduardo Santos
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The chess metaphor mirrors war strategy games played by officers while soldiers die—abstracted violence becoming personal nightmare.
Portuguese animation has quietly become a powerhouse for processing colonial and military trauma through surreal, compact storytelling.
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