In the near future, the world’s population has been decreasing. All new pregnancies suffer from an unknown influence that turns the babies into mutants —called zotes— which are immediately targeted and eliminated by the authorities. Judite Foster is now pregnant for the sixth time, although none of her earlier children survived. But this time Judite does not want to follow the state’s protocol for cases like this and so she fleas with her husband, to hide in a run-down hotel near the sea where Gould, a specialist doctor might help them.
Solveig Nordlund
She was born in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1943, and lived and worked in Portugal for more than 30 years. She studied Art and Languages at the University of Stockholm, and Film in Paris. She began her career as an assistant director and editor, working on films by Manoel de Oliveira, Alberto Seixas Santos and João César Monteiro, among others. As one of the founders of Grupo Zero, she was part of several collective films made during the period after the 1974 revolution that saw the end of a decades-long fascist dictatorship. Her films, from ‘Disappeared’ (1975) to ‘Sou Autor Do Meu Nome Mia Couto’ (2019), have been screened and awarded at prestigious international film festivals in Locarno, Rome, Mar del Plata, Rotterdam, Montréal, São Paulo, New York and Gothenburg.
DIRECTOR
Solveig Nordlund
SCREENPLAY
Solveig Nordlund, Colin Tucker, Jeanne Waltz
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Acácio de Almeida
EDITOR
Snežana Lalić
SOUND
Miguel Martins
MUSIC
Johan Zachrisson
PRODUCTION
François d'Artemare, Maria João Mayer, Solveig Nordlund
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Filmes do Tejo, Torromfilm, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
CAST
Margarida Marinho, Miguel Guilherme, Rui Morrisson, Rita Só, Isabel de Castro, Canto e Castro, Ismael Lourenço, Sheila Buchanan, Maria Duarte Pereira
VOCES
Io Appolloni, Jonathan Weightman, Elisa Lisboa
RUNNING TIME
80 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2002
VERSION
V.O. en portugués, inglés subtitulada en español e inglés
Digitization by Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema, under the frame of the FILMar project, part of the European Financial Mechanism EEA Grants 2020-2024.
Digitization by Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema, under the frame of the FILMar project, part of the European Financial Mechanism EEA Grants 2020-2024.
