September

Leonor Noivo

Fiction / 35’ / 2016

Nights and days roll in like a braking train. Mother and son return to their country, their city, their past, after years spent abroad. They take diverging paths to reclaim what has been lost; the son in search of an absent father, the mother seeking the possibility of love. From this confrontation a new gesture is born — the beginning of a metamorphosis, a reencounter in a time and space that is theirs only.

with Marta Mateus, Pedro Completo, João Ferro Martins, Francisca Alarcão direction and script Leonor Noivo editing Francisco Moreira, Luísa Homem, Victoria Radoslavova image Vasco Viana art direction Nádia Henriques sound Ricardo Leal, Copi sound design Svetlozar Georgiev color correction Todor Todorov producers João Matos, Leonor Noivo, Luísa Homem, Pedro Pinho, Susana Nobre, Tiago Hespanha co-producer Vanya Rainova

    co-production PORTOKAL

    Special Mention - Zinebi'16
    Grand Prize for Best Short-Film - Frames - Portuguese Film Festival'18

    • Locarno International Film Festival – Pardi di Domani Competition, Switzerland '16
    • International Film Festival Rotterdam: IFFR, Netherlands '17
    • Curtas Vila do Conde – Festival Internacional de Cinema , Portugal '16
    • Zinebi - Bilboko Dokumentalen eta Film Laburren Nazioarteko Jaialdia / International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain '16
    • Cinema Português em Moscovo e São Petersburgo, Russia '16
    • Cairo International Film Festival – The Cinema Of Tomorrow Section, Egypt '16
    • In The Palace International short Film Festival, Bulgaria '16
    • Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria '17
    • Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português, Portugal '16
    • Akbank Short Film Festival, Turkey '17
    • Festival Cinematográfico Internacional do Uruguay, Uruguay '17
    • FFF Fronteira – Festival Internacional do Filme Documentário e Experimental, Brazil '17
    • Olhar de Cinema - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curitiba, Brazil '17
    • Lima Independente Festival Internacional de Cine, Peru '17
    • Jagran Film Festival, India '17
    • Vista Curta - Festival de Curtas de Viseu, Portugal '17
    • Extensão Curtas Vila do Conde - Cinemateca Portuguesa, Portugal '16
    • Olhares do Mediterrâneo - Cinema no Feminino, Portugal '17
    • Curt'Arruda - Festival de Cinema Rural de Arruda dos Vinhos, Portugal '17
    • Frames – Portuguese Film Festival, Sweden '18
    • Cine La Orquídea, Equador'18
    • Cineclube de Montemor-O-Novo, Portugal'18
    • Brixton Reel, England'18
    • Porto Femme Int'l Film Festival, Portugal'19
    • Budapest Short Film Festival, Hungary'19
    • Mostra de Cinema Português, Portugal'19
    • 8ª Semana de Cine Portugués, Argentina'21
    • Mostra "Dia da Língua Portuguesa em Estocolmo", Sweden22
Ana Teresa Ascensão