Maria do Mar (2015)
It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother Simão and his friends, all of them in their late twenties. Everyone is drawn to the beautiful and quiet Maria do Mar, but Nicolau will see his life the most deeply shaken by her. Between homework and tree-climbing, stories about a deceased philandering grandfather and the origins of the tortellini's shape, a friend in a costume nursing a broken heart and seduction games, Nicolau observes this group of young adults.
Director: João Rosas
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Francisco Melo as Nicolau |
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André G. Pinto as Pedro |
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Maria Canelhas as Teresa |
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Miguel Carmo as Simão |
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Miguel Plantier as Gremlin |
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Paola Giufridda as Giulia |
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Luís Araújo as Filipe |
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Mariana Galvão as Maria do Mar |
| Directing | João Rosas | Director |
| Editing | Luís Miguel Correia | Editor |
| Writing | João Rosas | Writer |
| Production | Sandro Aguilar | Producer |
| Production | João Matos | Producer |
| Production | Luís Urbano | Producer |
| Camera | Paulo Menezes | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Jorge Cramez | Assistant Director |
| Sound | António Pedro Figueiredo | Sound Director |
| Sound | Ricardo Ganhão | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Ricardo Leal | Sound Assistant |
| Art | Maria Ribeiro | Art Direction |
| Art | Nádia Santos Henriques | Art Direction |
| Production | Susana Nobre | Executive Producer |
| Production | Bárbara Valentina | Production Manager |
| Editing | João Rosas | Editor |
| Sound | Tiago Matos | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Tiago Matos | Sound Mixer |
| Editing | Paulo Américo | Colorist |
| Directing | André Silva Santos | Script Supervisor |