A film by Miguel Gomes. "Redemption" celebrated its premiere in the official selection of the Venice International Film Festival – Out of Competition

Year  2013

Length: 27 min

Format:   1:1.33

Country of production  PRT, GER, FRA, ITA

Synopsis

On January 21st 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6th 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3rd 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can’t get out of her head.
But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?

Production

O Som e a Fúria (Portugal) in co-production with Le Fresnoy - Studio National Des Arts Contemporains (France), Komplizen Film (Germany), Okta Film and HFilms (Italy), ZDF/Arte; funded by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg; in collaboration with Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu Do Cinema, Istituto Luce – Cinecittà, RTP and Fuori Orario - Rai Tre.

Cast

With the voices of

Jaime Pereira, Donatello Brida, Jean-Pierre Rehm and Maren Ade

Team

Directed by

Miguel Gomes

Texts by

Miguel Gomes

Mariana Teixeira

Editing

João Nicolau

Miguel Gomes

Mariana Ricardo

with the participation of the students of Le Fresnoy – Promotion Raoul Ruiz / Promotion Chris Marker

Sound Design

Miguel Martins

Associate Producers

Meinolf Zurhorst (ZDF/Arte)

Catherine Colas (ZDF/Arte)

Daniela Cattaneo Diaz (hfilms)

Production Managers

Luís Urbano, Bertrand Scalabre

Producer

Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar (O Som e a Fúria)

Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade (Komplizen Film)

Paolo Benzi (Faber Film)

Festivals

Venedig International Film Festival 2013

Official Program, Out of Competition

Toronto International Film Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival

New York International Film Festival

Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia

Mostra de São Paulo

Jilhava International Film Festival

Viennale International Film Festival

Sevila International Film Festival

CPH:DOX

La Roche Sur Yon International Fil Festival

Montréal International Documentary Film Festival

Museum of the Moving Image New York

Muestra de Cine Europeo de Lanzarote

Madeira Micro International Film Festival

Oslo International Film Festival

Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb

Black Movie International Film Festival Geneva

Rotterdam International Film Festival

Ficunam

Courtisane Film Festival

Festival International de Cine Murcia

Buenos Aires International Film Festival

Next Film Festival

Istanbul International Film Festival

Festival International de Cinema d'Autor de Barcelona

Jeonju International Film Festival

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival

Midnight Sun Film Festival

Edinburgh International Film Festival

Melbourne International Film Festival

VIS Vienna Independent Shorts

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

Riga International Film Festival 2ANNAS

Distribution

World Distribution