Film - Légua

Légua

2023

Portugal, France, Italy / Fiction / 16mm / 119'

At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana's daughter, challenges her mother's choices and the three generations of women search to understand where they belong in a world that is rapidly fading, where the cycle of life is renovated only through inevitable endings.

Featuring: Carla Maciel, Fátima Soares, Vitória Nogueira da Silva,

Sara Machado, Paulo Calatré, Manuel Mozos

Directed by: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra

Written by: João Miller Guerra, Filipa Reis, Sara Morais, José Filipe Costa, Letícia Simões

Assistant Director: Emídio Miguel

Cast Preparation: Kleider Luciano Risso

Production Coordinator: Joana Vaz da Silva

Costume Design: Susana Abreu

Make-up and Hair: Maria Almeida Nani

Production Design: Marco Ascanio Viarigi

Director of Photography: Vasco Viana

Editing: Luísa Homem

Color Grading: Alessandro Pelliccia

Sound: Benoît Guérineau

Sound Editing: Benoît Gargonne

Sound Mix: Johann Nallet

Original Score: Ricardo Jacinto, Hypogeo

Producers: Rachel Daisy Ellis, Filipa Reis

Co-producers: Catarina Mourão, Alexandre Gavras, Jon Coplon

Produced by: Uma Pedra no Sapato

Co-produced by: Laranja Azul, KG Productions, Stayblack Productions

Sales Agent: Luxbox

Distribution (Portugal): Uma Pedra no Sapato

Funded by: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Fundo de Apoio ao Turismo e ao Cinema, RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, MiC – Ministero della Cultura, Eurimages – Council of Europe, Ibermedia

Design: Rui Guerra

Design: Carlos A. Fernández

Festivals and Awards

Quinzaine des Cinéastes du Festival de Cannes

Sélection Long métrage (FR 05.2023)

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MUBI Podcast: Cannes Conversations | Filipa Reis and Ildikó Enyedi

MUBI Podcast host Rico Gagliano traveled to the Cannes Film Festival, camera crew in tow, to chat it up with a cross-section of filmmakers debuting their movies there. Our Cannes Conversations mini-season concludes this week with two final interviews.

Directors’ Fortnight Title ‘Légua’, Broken Down by Helmers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra

“Légua” by Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra has its world premiere in Directors Fortnight.

It is co-produced by Catarina Mourão at Portugal’s Laranja Azul, Alexandre Gavras at France’s KG Productions and Jon Coplon at Italy’s Stayblack Productions. World sales are repped by Luxbox, a sign of a high-profile arthouse proposition. The directors spoke to Variety.

Exclusive: Poster for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection

Set to have its world premiere screening (05.23) in the Directors’ Fortnight section, we have your exclusive first look at poster one-sheet for tandem Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra‘s sophomore fiction feature Légua.

LÉGUA by Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra: A poignant portrait of a changing region

Discover “LÉGUA” by Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra, a film presented at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Immerse yourself in the moving story of Emilia, the caretaker of an old house in Portugal, and Ana , whose health is deteriorating, as they seek their place in a changing world.

Filipa Reis e João Miller Guerra estão na Quinzena dos Cineastas de Cannes

Há outro filme português no programa da 76ª edição do Festival de Cannes (de 16 a 27 de Maio), foi hoje anunciado: trata-se da nova longa-metragem de Filipa Reis e João Miller Guerra, co-produção Uma Pedra no Sapato/Laranja Azul. A dupla está seleccionada para a mais prestigiada das secções paralelas do festival, a Quinzena dos Cineastas, com Légua, filme que sucede a Djon África (2018) na colaboração entre os dois cineastas.

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight to Include Michel Gondry, Hong Sang-soo Films

There will be a special screening of late Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira’s 1993 drama Abraham’s Valley to mark the film’s 30th anniversary of its original Directors’ Fortnight debut.

The Hollywood Reporter

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