Filipe Pereira

Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.

Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, they discover to their horror that the house is still under construction. This is just the beginning of the problems for the grandparents, because soon they will lose their children. They have only two days left to find them, before their parents join them.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

恐怖小説やSF小説の先駆者H・P・ラブクラフトの「ザ・カラー・アウト・オブ・スペース（宇宙からの色／異次元の色彩）」をニコラス・ケイジ主演で映画化したSFホラー。ネイサン・ガードナーと妻のテレサは子どもたちとともに大都会の喧噪から逃れるため、閑静な田舎に移住してきた。しかし、前庭に隕石が激突して以来、一家の生活は心と体に影響を及ぼす地球外変異体との戦いに明け暮れ、理想としていた静かな田舎暮らしは悪夢へと変わってしまう。ケイジがネイサン役を演じるほか、ネイサンの妻テレサ役を「レッド・スパロー」のジョエリー・リチャードソン、長女ラヴィニア役を「ビッグ・アイズ」「好きだった君へ P.S.まだ大好きです」のマデリン・アーサーがそれぞれ演じる。監督は「ハードウェア」「ダスト・デビル」のリチャード・スタンリー。

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.

A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle, struggles by himself through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee the safety of his companions.

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.

In 1870, four different stories happen in four different places in the world.