LOCARNO
Leopardo de Ouro para Melhor Filme
Leopardo de Prata para Melhor Atriz, para Vitalina Varela
Menção Honrosa do Júri Ecuménico
Prémio do Júri Independente Boccalino D'Oro para Melhor Atriz, para Vitalina Varela

LA ROCHE-SUR-YON
Prémio do Júri para Melhor Filme

CHICAGO
Silver Hugo Jury Prize

MAR DEL PLATA
Melhor Realização, para Pedro Costa
Melhor Actor, para Ventura
Melhor Fotografia, para Leonardo Simões

GIJÓN
Premio Principado de Asturias para Melhor Filme
Melhor Fotografia, para Leonardo Simões

CAMINHOS DO CINEMA PORTUGÊS
Grande Prémio Festival
Melhor Atriz, para Vitalina Varela
Melhor Fotografia, para Leonardo Simões

Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores
Melhor Filme, para Vitalina Varela

Portugal's Official Selection For The 93rd Academy Awards - OSCARS
Melhor Filme Estrangeiro, Vitalina Varela

Locarno Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Filmfest Hamburg
Busan International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
New York Film Festival
Harvard Film Archive
Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia
UNDERDOX Filmfestival
Film Festival Cologne
BFI London Film Festival
Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Festival International du Film La Roche-sur-Yon
Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival
QCinema International Film Festival, Manila
KACT Cinematheque, Seoul
Chicago International Film Festival
Korean Film Archive Cinematheque, Seoul
Cinematheque Gwangju
Filmfestival Viennale
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Kolkata International Film Festival
Dharamshala International Film Festival
European Film Fórum Scanorama, Vilnius
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
Ljubljana International Film Festival
Retrospectiva Margarida Cordeiro e António Reis, Belo Horizonte
Cairo International Film Festival
Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón
Caminhos do Cinema Português
Torino Film Festival
Cineuropa Santiago de Compostela
Auteur Film Festival, Belgrade
Athens Avant Garde Film Festival
Around the World in 14 Films, Berlin
Singapore International Film Festival
Porto/Post/Doc
Tokyo FILMex
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo
Tbilisi International Film Festival
Human Rights Film Festival, Zagreb
International Film Festival of Kerala
Laceno D’oro Festival Internazionale del Cinema, Avelino
Transcinema Festival Internacional de Cine, Lima
Semana de Cine Português, Buenos Aires
Sundance Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Festival do Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Cinemateca Capitólio, Porto Alegre

ESTREIA NACIONAL

ESTREIAS INTERNACIONAIS

Salas Virtuais
April 2020
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn - New York
Film at Lincoln Center, New York - New York
Cleveland Cinematheque, Cleveland - Ohio
Denver Film Society, Denver - Colorado
Lumiere Acropolis Cinema, Los Angeles - California
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus - Ohio
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago - Illinois
Alamo Winchester, Winchester - Virginia
Film Scene, Iowa City - Iowa
Webster Film Series, Webster Groves - Missouri
Apohadion, Portland - Maine
Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia - Pennsylvania
Acoustic Java, Worcester - Massachusetts
Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington - Indiana
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle - Washington
Lark Theater, Larkspur - California
Row House Cinema, Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania
Guild Cinema, Albuquerque - New Mexico
Frida Cinema, Long Beach - California
Zeitgeist Theatre, New Orleans - Louisiana
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City - Oklahoma
Riviera Theatre, Santa Barbara - California
Violet Crown, Santa Fe - New Mexico
Austin Film Society, Austin - Texas
Amherst Cinema, Amherst - Massachusetts
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria - New York
Cinematique of Daytona, Daytona - Florida
The Film Lab, Hamtramack - Michigan
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston - Texas
The Roxie Theater, San Francisco - California
Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck - New York
Broadway Metro, Eugene - Oregon
International Film Series, Boulder - Colorado
Taos Center for the Arts, Taos - New Mexico
Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe - New Mexico
Midtown Cinema, Harrisburg - Pennsylvania
Corazon Cinema and Cafe, St. Augustine - Florida
Magic Lantern Theatre, Spokane - Washington
CinéSPEAK, Philadelpha - Pennsylvania
Fort Wayne Cinema Center, Fort Wayne - Indiana
Dedham Community Theatre, Dedham - Massachusetts
Tropic Cinema, Key West - Florida
Nickelodeon Theatre, Columbia - South Carolina
The Davis Varsity Theatre, Davis - California
Parkway Theatre Lounge, Minneapolis - Minnesota
Riverview Theater, Minneapolis - Minnesota
The Patriot, Grosse Pointe - Wisconsin
Ruby Cinemas, Franklin - North Carolina
Taylor Theatres, Fremont - Michigan
Penn Cinema, Lititz - Pennsylvania
The Little Theatre, Rochester - New York
Oxnard Film Society, Oxnard - California
Indie Memphis, Memphis - Tennessee
The Digital Gym, San Diego - California
The Belcourt, Nashville - Tennessee
All Saints Cinema, Tallahassee - Florida
Indie on Main, Keyser - West Virgina
Pocono Cinema, Pocono - Pennsylvania
Story Screen Beacon, Beacon - New York
Cinema Paradiso, Fort Lauderdale - Florida
Liberty Theatre, Camas - Washington
Northwest Film Center, Portland - Oregon
Film Streams, Omaha - Nebraska
Downing Film Center, Newburgh - New York
Bookhouse Cinema, Joplin - Missouri
Campus Theatre, Lewisburg - Pennsylvania
Edmond Town Hall, Newtown - California
Theatre Box, San Diego - California
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge - Massachusetts
Suns Cinema, Washington - Washington D.C.
The Chabot, Castro Valley - California
Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro - Vermont
AFI Silver, Silver Springs - Maryland
Salem Cinema, Salem - Washington
VTIFF, Burlington - Vermont
The Olympia Film Society, Olympia - Washington
The Parkway, Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania
Eclipse Theaters, Las Vegas - Nevada
Mariemont Theatre, Cincinnati - Ohio
Esquire Theatre, Cincinnati - Ohio
Queen's Film Society, College Station - Texas
Moxie Cinema, Springfield - Missouri
Cape Ann Community Cinema, Rockport - Massachusetts
Palace Theatre , Canadian - Texas
Fine Arts Theatre, Asheville - North Carolina
Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro - Vermont

REINO UNIDO e IRLANDA - Second Run
Salas
6 March 2020
ICA Cinema, London - ica.art
HOME, Manchester - homemcr.org
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle - tynesidecinema.co.uk
Watershed, Bristol - watershed.co.uk
Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge - picturehouses.com
Barbican, London - barbican.org.uk
10 March 2020
Leeds Film Festival, Vue - leedsfilm.com
13 March 2020
Ciné Lumière, London - institut-francais.org.uk
17 March 2020
Cube, Bristol - cubecinema.com
20 March 2020
QUAD, Derby derbyquad.co.uk
23 March 2020
Showroom Sheffield - showroomworkstation.org.uk
Genesis, London - genesiscinema.co.uk
27 March 2020
Waterman’s, Brentford - watermans.org.uk
6 April 2020
Rex, Berkhamsted - therexberkhamsted.com
12 April 2020
Triskel Arts, Cork - triskelartscentre.ie
15 April 2020
Filmhouse, Edinburgh - filmhousecinema.com
18 April 2020
Palace Broadstairs - thepalacecinema.co.uk
19 April 2020
Savoy, Penzance - penzance.merlincinemas.co.uk
20 April 2020
Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries - rbcft.co.uk
24 April 2020
Broadway, Nottingham - broadway.org.uk

CANADÁ 2021, Acéphale Distribution
ALEMANHA 2021, Grand Film
HOLANDA 2021, EYE Unseen

JAPÃO - Cinematrix
Salas
19 September 2020
Eurospace, Tóquio
Osaka Cine Nuvo
4 October 2020
Atsugi no Eigakan kiki , Kanagawa
October 2020
Demachiza, Quioto
9 October 2020
Teatro Toyooka, Hyogo
7 Novemberto 2020
Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo
November 2020
Yokohama Cinemarin, Kanagawa

ITÁLIA - Zomia Distribuzione
Salas
September 2020
Museo Nazionale del cinema, Torino
October 2020
Postmodernissimo, Perugia
Cinema Lux, Padova
November 2020
Sala Truffaut, Modena
Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna
Cinema Nuovo Aquila, Roma
Sala Pegasus, Spoleto
Centro Pecci, Prato
Cinema Adriano, Sala Consilina – Salerno

ESPANHA - NUMAX
Salas
16 Octuber 2020
Cine Estudio Del Circulo De Bellas Artes - Madrid
Cineteca - Madrid
Cines Golem - Madrid
Multicines Broadway - Valladolid
Multicines 7 - Bilbao
Golem Yamaguchi - Pamplona
Codex Cinema - Lugo
Cinema Numax - Santiago
Duplex Cinema - Ferrol
Multicines Babel - Valência
Cine Albeniz - Malaga
Cinemes Girona - Barcelona
Cines Yelmo Icaria - Barcelona
Cinema Malda - Barcelona
Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona
Screenbox - Lleida
Cinebaix - Sant Feliu
Cineciutat - Palma De Mallorca
Multicines Monopol - las Palmas De Gran Canaria
23 October 2020
Cinemes Truffaut - Gerona
Yelmo Ideal - Madrid
Mercado - Soria
Aragonia - Zaragoza
Trueba - San Sebastian
Groucho - Santander
Cantones - Coruña
Avenida - Sevilla

FRANÇA 2021, Survivance Distribution
BÉLGICA 2021, Ciné Galleries
BRASIL 2021, Zeta Filmes
SUÍÇA 2021, Cinematheque Lausanne
MEXICO 2021, Interior XII
ARGENTINA 2021, Vai Vem
URUGUAI 2021, Filmoteca Uruguaya
COLÔMBIA 2021, Cineteca Bogotá
GRÉCIA 2021, Atenas - VideoPress

DIFUSÃO TV, CABO E STREAMING
CRITERION CHANNEL USA
GRASSHOPPER FILM WEBSITE
ITUNES
AMAZON PRIME UK
MUBI REINO UNIDO, ALEMANHA
RAI3 - Fuori Orario - Novembro/Dezembro 2020
LLEIDA/SCREENBOX

Like most Cape Verdean young men, Joaquim left his country, in 1977, with the promise of work as a bricklayer. Like all Cape Verdean girls, Vitalina remained, waiting and longing for a happy life. With his first money saved, Joaquim buys a brick and plate shack in the neighborhood of Cova da Moura, in the suburbs of Lisbon. He writes one or two letters to Vitalina, and calls her promising a plane ticket to come join him in Portugal. In 35 years, Joaquim will only return to Cape Verde twice. During his first stay, Joaquim and Vitalina begin building a house near the chapel of their home village. During his second, as soon as he arrives, he claims he must see a cousin in the north and takes the first plane back to Lisbon. This was the last time Vitalina saw him. He never wrote or called again. Over this final visit Vitalina became pregnant with a boy, Bruno, who Joaquim will never know. Vitalina and Joaquim already had a daughter, Jessica, born in 1996. Every other night he's seen wandering and stumbling in the dark alleyways of Cova da Moura. Rumor has it that he stabbed a fellow mason in a fight over some shady business. He misses work, his colleagues lose his trail, they knock on his door, but he never answers. He dies on June 23rd, 2013 and is buried the on 27th. Vitalina arrives in Portugal on the 30th. Nobody knows her in the neighborhood, no one comforts her, everyone turns a suspicious eye. Vitalina spends countless days and nights locked in Joaquim's shack. She barely survives the pain and the nightmares. A few months pass and she manages to find one or two jobs as a cleaning lady. In a high society mansion, they fire her without pay. She's hired to clean the Zara shops in a giant mall. She gets 5 € an hour. One morning there's a knock on her door: she's afraid it might be the police or the Immigration Officials. It was Pedro Costa, looking for a house to shoot a scene for the film Horse Money.

Comme la majorité des hommes du Cap-Vert, Joaquim partit à l'étranger, en 1977, avec en poche une promesse de travail comme maçon. Comme toutes les femmes cap-verdiennes, Vitalina resta à l'attendre, rêvant à une vie plus heureuse. Avec ses premières économies, Joaquim acheta une baraque de briques et de tôle dans le quartier de Cova da Moura, à la périphérie de Lisbonne. Il écrivit une ou deux lettres à Vitalina, lui téléphona en lui promettant un billet d'avion pour venir le rejoindre au Portugal. En 35 ans, Joaquim ne fera que deux voyages au Cap-Vert. Lors du premier, Joaquim et Vitalina commencèrent à construire une maison, non loin de la chapelle de leur village natal. Lors du deuxième, à peine arrivé, Joaquim prétendit qu'il devait aller rendre visite à un cousin et attrapa le premier avion pour retourner à Lisbonne. Ce fut la dernière fois que Vitalina le vit. Jamais plus il n'écrivit ni ne téléphona. De cette dernière visite, Vitalina resta enceinte d'un garçon, Bruno, que Joaquim ne connaîtra jamais. Vitalina et Joaquim avait déjà une fille, Jessica, née en 1996. Certaines nuits, on pouvait le voir titubant par les ruelles du quartier. On raconte qu'il avait poignardé un camarade lors d'une bagarre à cause d'une affaire louche. Il commença à manquer à son travail, ses collègues perdirent sa trace, il ne répondait pas quand ils frappaient à la porte de sa baraque. Il meurt le 23 juin 2013 et est enterré le 27. Vitalina arrive au Portugal le 30 du même mois. Dans le quartier, personne ne la connaît, personne ne la réconforte, les voisins se méfient d'elle. Vitalina passe des jours et des nuits de chagrin et d'angoisse, cloîtrée dans la maison de Joaquim. Après plusieurs mois, elle réussit à trouver des petits boulots comme femme de ménage. Dans le quartier de Belém, dans une demeure bourgeoise, on la renvoie sans la payer. Elle est engagée pour nettoyer les boutiques Zara d'un grand centre commercial. On la paye 5 euros de l'heure. Un matin on frappe à sa porte : elle pense que c'est la police ou le service de l'immigration. C'était Pedro Costa qui cherchait une maison dans le quartier pour une scène de son film Cavalo Dinheiro.

Come la maggior parte degli uomini capoverdiani, Joaquim parte per l'estero, nel 1977, con la promessa di un posto di lavoro da muratore. Come tutte le donne capoverdiane, Vitalina rimane ad aspettarlo, sogna una vita più felice. Con i suoi primi risparmi, Joaquim compra una baracca di mattoni e lamiera alla Cova da Moura, quartiere della periferia di Lisbona. Scrive due o tre lettere a Vitalina, la chiama al telefono promettendole un biglietto di aereo per raggiungerlo in Portogallo. In trentacinque anni Joaquim farà solo due viaggi a Capo Verde. La prima volta Joaquim e Vitalina cominciano a costruire una loro casa vicino alla cappella del paese natale. La seconda volta, appena arrivato, Joaquim dice di andare a visitare un cugino e scappa via sul primo aereo di ritorno a Lisbona. È l’ultima volta che lo vede. Non scriverà né telefonerà mai più. In quest’ultima visita Vitalina rimane incinta di Bruno, un bambino che Joaquim non conoscerà mai. Vitalina e Joaquim avevano già una figlia, Jessica, nata nel 1996. Quasi tutte le notti i vicini vedono Joaquim barcollare per i vicoli del quartiere. Pare che abbia accoltellato un amico in un litigio, a causa di un affare losco. Non si presenta a lavoro, gli amici lo perdono di vista, non risponde quando bussano alla porta della sua baracca. Muore il 27 giugno 2013 ed è sepolto il 27. Vitalina arriva in Portogallo il 30. Nel quartiere nessuno la conosce, nessuno si cura di lei, i vicini non si fidano. Vitalina passa lunghi giorni e notti di angoscia e sconforto, chiusa in casa di Joaquim. Trascorsi molti mesi, riesce a trovare qualche lavoretto come donna delle pulizie. In una villa borghese a Belém la licenziano, senza pagarle il lavoro. È assunta per fare le pulizie nei negozi Zara di un grande centro commerciale. Le danno 5 euro all’ora. Una mattina qualcuno bussa alla sua porta: Vitalina pensa sia la Polizia o i Servizi di Stranieri. Pedro Costa cercava una casa nel quartiere per filmare una scena del film Cavalo Dinheiro.

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