A courtroom is a theatre and a death may be staged. Two policemen are accused in a court of law of the unlawful murder of J.’s mother is questioned by the police officers’ defense attorney, to determine who her son was: was he really who he is said to have been? Found beside his body is a gun and drugs.
Featuring: Graziella Moretto, Eduardo Gaspar, António Terra, Lília Trajano, Augusto Madeira, Marcelo Gonçalves, Marcello Mello, Lucas Sadalla
Directed by: José Filipe Costa
Written by: José Filipe Costa
Research: Natasha Neri
Photography: Vasco Viana
Sound: Rúben Costa
Editing: Francisco Moreira
Art Direction and Costumes: Nádia Henriques
Sound Mixer: Branko Neskov
Color Grading: Jennifer Mendes
Assistant Director: Nuno Milagre
Line Producer: Daniela Soares
Producers: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra
Co-producers: Daniela Santos, Eduardo Ades, João Felipe Freitas
Produced by: Uma Pedra no Sapato
Co-produced by: ImagemTempo
Promotion and International Sales: Portugal Film – Portuguese Film Agency
Funded by: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
Festivals and Awards
IndieLisboa - Festival Internacional de Cinema
National Competition (PT 05.2017)
Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de São Paulo
Curta Kinoforum (BR)
Festival de Cinema de Vitória - Mostra Cinema e Negritude
(BR 09.2017 )
Delhi Shorts International Film Festival
(IN 10.2017)
The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale
Portuguese Short Films (US 2017)
Shortcutz Ovar
(PT 2018)
Honorable Mention
6ª Semana da Comunicação Social da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
(PT 04.2018)
IV Festival Latino-Americano de Cinema de Belo Jardim
(BR 05.2018)
Desobedoc – Mostra de Cinema Insubmisso
(PT 05.2018)
Festival Taguatinga de Cinema
(BR 08.2018)
Festival Guarnicê de Cinema
(BR 06.2018)
VER CINE, Festival de Cinema da Baixada Fluminense
Mostra Panorama Nacional (BR 08.2018)
CineAvante! - Festa do Avante!
(PT 09.2018)
Best Fiction Short
Côte Ouest, Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest
IndieLisboa: 15 ans de Cinéma Libre (FR 11.2018)
King’s College London
The Creative Process in Portuguese Film: Materialities conference (UK 2019)
XII Jornadas de Cinema em Português
(PT 05.2019)
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