A revolution's anniversary becomes a reckoning when the past refuses to stay buried.
Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationship. On the night of the celebrations, the death of a friend forever alters his live, waking up a whole past long dormant.
Acting
Vítor Norte carries decades of unspoken damage in every silence.
Direction
Ruy Guerra knows Alentejo's landscape breathes like a character.
Director
Ruy Guerra
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The Carnation Revolution's 25th anniversary in 1999 sparked intense Portuguese soul-searching about colonial legacy—this film captures that national mood perfectly.
Ruy Guerra, Brazilian by birth but decades in Portuguese cinema, brings an outsider's sharp eye to Alentejo's specific silence around the colonial wars.
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