17 minutes that'll wreck your entire philosophy on love. Pack tissues.
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke.
Writing
Rilke poetry woven into dialogue like a secret weapon.
Acting
Raw performances that feel uncomfortably witnessed.
Director
Aline Portugal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Portugal adapts Rilke's philosophy literally—love as 'work' becomes visible labor between two bodies negotiating space.
Portuguese cinema's 2010s wave of micro-shorts addressing intimacy crisis; this premiered at Clermont-Ferrand, the Sundance of shorts.
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