When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company, dances boisterously, gets drunk. A quiet film about letting go morphs into a coming of middle age story.
A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was sixteen, when she arrived to Lisbon, coming from a small village in Alentejo. At the Hospital, she reads the file of an old patient who was also her friend. The file is then closed. Maria do Céu returns to her village, where she sings at the people’s house choir.
She was born in Lisbon in 1974. In 1998 she received a B.A. in Communication Sciences from Lisbon’s Nova University. She directed the documentaries “Active Life” (2013) and “O Que Pode Um Rosto” (2003), as well as the short films “Trials, Exorcisms” (2015), “Lisbon-Province” (2010), and “Estados da Matéria” (2006) Her films have been shown in the following festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight), Rotterdam, Angers, Vila do Conde, Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Montevideo, among others. Since 2006 she has been a member of the production company Terratreme (former Raiva), where she has worked as an executive producer in many projects.
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