Coup de Grâce
Portugal / Fiction / 26' / HD / Color / 2017
Leonor returns from a trip on a day where her dad wasn’t expecting her. In twenty-four hours they will live a crescendoing hallucinated reality, led by Francisco’s unsettling state of apparent normality.
Director: Salomé Lamas
Script: Salomé Lamas, Isabel Pettermann
Director of Photography: Rui Xavier
Producer: Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar
Editing: Salomé Lamas, Francisco Moreira
Sound: Miguel Martins
Cast: Álvaro Covelo, Clara Jost, Gabriel Abrantes, João Pedro Bénard, Margarida Lucas, Miguel Borges, Pinto Workers
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Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1987, she studied directing and editing at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC) in Lisbon and at the FAMU film school in Prague. She also studied visual arts at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and is currently taking a PhD in film studies at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Her work has screened at many international film festivals and featured in museums around the world.
Filmography
Coup de Grace 2017, Ubi Sunt 2017, A Torre 2015, Le Boudin 2014, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 2013, A Comunidade 2012, Terra de Ningeum 2012, Encounter With Landscape 2012
Festivals Attended
Coup de Grace: Berlin International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema of Montreal, Gijon IFF, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Curtas Vila do Conde
Awards
Coup de Grace: Honorable Mention - Coimbra Caminhos do Cinema Português
Contact
agencia@curtas.pt
*In collaboration with The Portuguese Short Film Agency