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Exclusive: Clips for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection

Published on May 15, 2023

Last week we featured the poster one-sheet for Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra’s Légua – and now we have a bit more of Portugal for you with some clips from the Directors’ Fortnight selected film. In one instance we have a non-heated bed-making polite exchange between Ana (Carla Maciel) and the elder Emília (Fátima Soares). Ana will essentially take over for the other – a changing of the guard of one person who is relinquishing the title and symbolically going down with the ship. Here every object (even a blanket) has a function, purpose and raison d’être. In the other clip, we find Ana and her teenage daughter in conflict – we have chickens running loose reminding us that we are in a rural setting, there is not much in the realm of possibilities for the next generation and that the outside world might have more to offer.

Légua will be having its world premiere on May 23rd – here are the times.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).