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nights | noites (extracts)
Independent Films
NIGHTS focuses on the banality and brutality inherent in everyday life of a heroin addicted couple. In NIGHTS a simple story turns into a raw and chilling film, a fiction shot as a documentary.
The film portrays João and Teresa day-to-day existence, on the street, on public transport, in "Casal Ventoso" (a slum area of Lisbon), in hospitals and in the house where they squat. All the sets form a circle around the slum. It is a vicious circle: penniless characters with nothing left but their bodies and the daily tasks needed to keep them going. Within those passages through places dwell affection and friendship and the vague hope that tomorrow things will be better.
The film was awarded in Venice International Film Festival (2000) with The best film of the Critics' Week.
Shot in DVcam, final copy: 35mm - 73min
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Language: Portuguese
Year of Production: 2000
Length: 10 min excerpt. total length: 73 min
Country: Portugal
Directors:
- claudia tomaz
Producers:
- Paulo Branco | Madragoa filmes
Actors:
- JOÃO PEREIRA, CLÁUDIA TOMAZ, ANA BUSTORFF, JOÃO D’ÁVILA, ISABEL RUTH
Film Festivals:
Awards and nominations
NOITES BEST FILM WEEK OF CRITICS, Venice International Film Festival 2000
NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM, Gijon Film Festival, 2000
Festivals and screenings
Venice International Film Festival, Italy, 2000
Gijon Film Festival, Spain, 2000
Belfort Film Festival, France
Festival Fic Brasília, Brasil
24ªMostra de Cinema de São Paulo, Brasil
“Odisseia das imagens” Porto 2001
Festival de Bratislava, Eslováquia
Mezipatra 2004, Brno e Prague, Check Republiique
Febio Festival, Brno, Check Republique
São Jorge cinema, Lisbon, 2009
Portuguese Cinemateque, 2009
Released in theatres in Portugal and France, Paris + cableTV
