Fiction ∙ 2019
104 min ∙
Cape Verdean Creole & Portuguese
A film by Basil Da Cunha
Spira, 18, spent the last eight years in remand school and returns to Reboleira, a slum in Lisbon. His friends Giovani and Chandi are still there, as are the locals, deals and parties. But some people, like the gang boss Kikas, aren't too pleased he's back. Spira realizes that things are changing. As the bulldozers begin to tear down the neighborhood, everyone tries to hold on to their dreams, like Iara who Spira falls in love with, or Giovani who'll do anything to be one of the top dealers.
Basil Da Cunha was born in Morges in 1985. He directed three short auto-produced films, then joined Thera Production in 2008. In 2012, he finished his cinema studies at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design of Geneva with his first feature film "Até ver a Luz". Since 2013, Basil Da Cunha is a cinema teacher at the Geneva HEAD. In 2017 he shot his second feature film "O fim do mundo".
O Fim Do Mundo · fiction · 107' · 2019
Nuvem Negra · documentary · 19' · 2014
Até ver a luz · fiction · 95' · 2013
Os vivos tambem choram · fiction · 31' · 2012
Sunfish · fiction · 30' · 2011
Next door · fiction · 25' · 2009
Lex Talionis · fiction · 26' · 2008
with
Michael SPENCERMarco Joel FERNANDES
Alexandre DA COSTA FONSECA
Iara CARDOSO
Luisa MARTINS DOS SANTOS
Carlos FONSECA
Manuel DELGADO DOS SANTOS
Director
Basil DA CUNHASCRIPT AND DIALOGUES
Basil DA CUNHA
SAADI
avec la collaboration de Martin DROUOT
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Patrick MENDES
PHOTOGRAPHY
Basil DA CUNHA
Rui XAVIER
SOUND
Henri MAIKOFF
Ricardo LEAL
Editing
Basil DA CUNHAJean REUSSER
Kostas MAKRINOS
Inês GRACIA MARQUES
Irina LOBO FORTUNA
SOUND EDITING
Adrien KESSLER
SOUND MIXING
Adrien KESSLER
Denis SÉCHAUD
COLOR GRADING
Jean-Baptiste PERRIN
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Yanis CARNAL
Production
Thera Production, Julien ROUYETProducteur associé Kaspar SCHILTKNECHT
Co-production
RTS Radio Télévision Suisse - Françoise MAYOR
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
L'Office fédéral de la culture (OFC)
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
Cinéforom
and the support of the
Loterie Romande
With the support of
Fonds culturel Suissimage
and the
Pour-cent culturel Migros: Postproduction
In collaboration with
HEAD Cinema Departement – Geneva
FESTIVAL Management AND INTERNATIONAL SALES
DISTRIBUTION SWITZERLAND
SISTER DISTRIBUTION - Swiss theatrical Release : March 2020
Distribution Portugal
ALAMBIQUE FILMES - Portuguese theatrical Release : September 2020
Buy a DVD in Portugal : Alambique DVD
Distribution France
Urban Distribution - French theatrical release : End of 2021
AWARDS
Best Cinematography - Swiss Film Academy 2020
Best feature Film - Section "Meeting Point" 64. Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
Best feature movie - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Praia Cabo Verde
Best photography - Les Arcs Film Festival
Best Portuguese Feature Film - National Competition - IndieLisboa 2020
Árvore da Vida Award - IndieLisboa 2020
NOMINATIONS
Best photography - Basil Da Cunha / Rui Xavier- Prix du Cinema Suisse 2020
Best director - Basil Da Cunha - SOPHIA 2021 (Academia Portuguesa de Cinema)
Best original script - Basil Da Cunha / Martin Drouot / Saadi - SOPHIA 2021
Best actor - Michael Spencer - SOPHIA 2021
Best actor in supporting role - Alexandre Da Costa Fonseca - SOPHIA 2021
Best photography - Basil Da Cunha / Rui Xavier - SOPHIA 2021
Best editing - Basil Da Cunha / Inês Garcia Marques / Irina Lobo Fortuna / Jean Reusser / Kostas Makrinos - SOPHIA 2021
Best Costume design - Nadia Henriques - SOPHIA 2021
Festivals
72e Locarno Film Festival - International Competition
24th Busan International Film Festival - Section FLASH FORWARD
24th Milano Film Festival
43a Mostra Internacional del Cinema de Sao Paulo
64. Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid SEMICI - Meeting Point
6a Festival Internacional de Cinema de Praia Cabo Verde
Vienna - This Human World 2019 Int. Filmfestival der Menschenrechte
Les Arcs Film Festival 2020 - International Competition
55. Solothurner Filmtage - Nomination Prix de Soleure
Gabes Cinema Fen 2020 - Tunis
The Olhar de Cinema 2020 - Curitiba IFF
Molodist Film Festival 2020, Kiev - Swiss Focus
IndieLisboa 2020 - National Competition
VOD
Switzerland - Filmingo
Portugal - Filmin
Brazil - Filmicca
USA - Cineville