AS SEREIAS (THE MERMAIDS)

   
 
  Portugal, 2001, FIC, 35mm, Colour, 31'
Director: Paulo Rocha
Producer: Sociedade Porto 2001, SA, Suma Filmes
Script: Regina Guimarães
Photography: Paulo Abreu
Editing: Edgar Feldman
Sound: Rui Coelho
Original Idiom: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis:

The night of summer solstice. The fireworks explosions resound between the two banks of the river as a bombardment. In the river, boats appear and disappear. Lost in the dark, rich and poor dissolve under the firework lights, changing colours at every moment.
Is it war? Is it the light of the sky descending upon them?
Is it the end of the world?

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