Story
HYBRID A deeply black, hypnotically expressionistic ghost story from Lisbon: Pedro Costa‘s new film won the Golden Leopard at Locarno. Vitalina Varela won the award for best actress. Vitalina Varela disembarks from the plane. The woman from the Cap Verde islands has been waiting 25 years for this flight, but she‘s too late: her husband Joaquin was buried three days ago. The only thing that remains for Vitalina is to settle the dead man’s affairs. Stiff with grief, she moves through the ramshackle quarter of Lisbon. Shreds of memories come to her in the dark. They tell of a shared house on the Cap Verde islands that remained unfinished because Joaquin upped and left.
Director
PEDRO COSTA (*1958) With films like Blood (1989), Down to Earth (1994), In Vanda‘s Room (2000) and Horse Money (2014) Pedro Costa is one of Portugal’s most influential directors and has won many awards for his work.Trailer
Info
Vitalina Varela
Documentary Feature
Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese
Vitrina | FF2019
Portugal
2019
124 min
OV with German subtitles
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela
Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida, Francisco Brito, Imídio Monteiro, Marina Alves Domingues
Abel Ribeiro Chaves
Leonardo Simões
João Dias, Vítor Carvalho
Grandfilm Verleih
OPTEC Sociedade Óptica Técnica
OPTEC Sociedade Óptica Técnica
Patrick Horn, Grandfilm Verleih: ph@grandfilm.de