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The Seasons

Maureen Fazendeiro
Portugal / France / Spain / Austria
82'

Weaving accounts of rural workers and fieldnotes of a couple of archaeologists, amateur footage and scientific drawings, legends, poems and songs, THE SEASONS is a journey through the real history and the tales of Alentejo, a region in southern Portugal, and a portrait of the people who have lived there.

For some time now, the Alentejo region has held a huge fascination over Portuguese filmmakers, and it’s hard to see why not. Beyond the picturality of its landscapes, this is a land of hard work and popular resistance. Stemming from the (hi)story of archaeologists Georg and Vera Leisner, Maureen Fazendeiro — whose sensitive thinking about the ways in which fiction and nonfiction can amplify each other shaped the film The Tsugua Diaries (2021, co-directed with Miguel Gomes) — documents the lands, histories, and songs of the region with a keen but light, playful, poetic. gaze. As for the contemporary echoes of these stories – particularly a feeling of existing far away from the rest of the world, in a peaceful place, while the outside world is facing all sorts of tragedies and misfortunes —, they could not be more relevant. (Flavia Dima)

Tuesday, September 23, 20:30

Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Maureen Fazendeiro

Maureen Fazendeiro is a French filmmaker, living in Lisbon. Her films have been screened at FID Marseille, TIFF, Quinzaine des cinéastes, NYFF, Cinéma du Réel and Jeonju International Film Festival, among other festivals, and in cinematheques and museums. She divides her time between solo projects and collaborations with filmmaker Miguel Gomes as a screenwriter and casting director.

  • Technical sheet
  • CAST: Simão Ramalho, Cláudio Da Silva, Ana Potra, Manuel Leitão, António Sozinho
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robin Fresson, Marta Simões
  • EDITING: Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro
  • PRODUCERS: Sandro Aguilar, Valentina Novati, Beli Martínez, Lukas Valenta Rinner
  • PRODUCTION COMPANIES: O Som e a Fúria, Norte Productions, Filmika Galaika, Nabis Filmgroup
  • ANIMATOR: Siegfried A. Fruhauf
  • PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Melania Freire
  • COSTUME DESIGNER: Melania Freire
  • SCREENPLAY: Maureen Fazendeiro
  • SOUND: Luca Rullo, Xavi Souto, Vasco Pimentel
  • ORIGINAL SCORE: Luís J Martins

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