Official Competition 2018

Onde o Verão Vai (episódios da juventude)

David Pinheiro Vicente I 2018 I 20'

SYNOPSIS

It’s summer, a boy and his friends go to the river. On the ride there, a story is told about a man and his pet snake that tried to eat him. The boy falls from a tree trunk and gets hurt. A girl follows him. A couple kiss each other, another boy explores the woods and a third one just lays by a tree eating a peach. In four chapters, the heat and the humidity of the forest unravel desires among them.

BIOGRAPHY

David Pinheiro Vicente

DAVID PINHEIRO VICENTE (Portugal, 1996) studied film directing in Lisbon. His documentary Simão was screened at the DocLisboa Film Festival in 2016. Since then, he has worked as an art director on several films and has worked as an assistant director for Salomé Lamas. Onde o verão vai, his first short fiction film, had its world premiere at the Berlinale 2017.

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Critical text

During a sizzling summer that could belong to any period, a group of young people set out to spend their time in the river, scene of matchless primitive echoes. By means of a complete polishing of his stylistic featu- res, the Portuguese David Pinheiro Vicente focuses his debut on bodies’ sensuality and their layout at the river landscape, by using the 4:3 to supply every framing with a dreamy pictorial personality. This way, this pleasant story divided in four chapters, first film of a team mostly compound by students, places Pinheiro in the trail of the emerging Damien Manivel (Le parc) or Alessandro Comodin (L’estate di Giacomo). As their respective starting works, Onde o verão vai blends the impassioned present of youthful instincts with a mythical and timeless scope, pulling out, this way, an evocative beauty from the impact that nature plays over excited bodies. SERGIO DE BENITO

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