Director
Rita Azevedo Gomes
Starring
Rita Durão, Eva Truffaut, Pierre Léon, Luis Miguel Cintra, Mário Fernandes, Anna Leppanen
Certificate
PG
Run Time
145 mins
Release Year
2016
Country of Origin
Portugal
Language
Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Italian
Director of Photography: Acácio de Almeida, Jorge Quintela
Editor: Rita Azevedo Gomes, Patricia Saramago
Produced by: Joana Ferreira, Isabel Machado
Music: Alexander Zekke
Screenplay by: Rita Azevedo Gomes
Sound Production: Olivier Blanc, François Guillaume
Director Bio
Rita Azevedo Gomes
P&I - Director Bio
Rita Azevedo Gomes is a versatile and independent artist.
Her career dates from the early 1970s and spans cinema, theatre, and opera. She has established a solid reputation for her graphic design work in film catalogues and cinema-related publications. Rita works as a programmer for the Cinemateca Portuguesa. Her films have been screened and acclaimed at various international film festivals.
Correspondences (Correspondências)
Part of the Documentaries Strand
Correspondences was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78). He was forced to leave Portugal due to political circumstances and would never return to his home country. The correspondence between the two poets is a testimony to their quest for freedom during a period when Portugal’s fascist regime was under increasing pressure. But their letters also offer an insight into the profound affinity between two human beings.
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