Maria Do Mar

Synopsis

It’s a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra. 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 beautiful and quiet Maria do Mar, but it’s Nicolau who will see his life shaken the most by this unexpected female presence. Between homework and tree-climbing, stories about a deceased philandering grandfather and the origins of tortellini’s shape, a friend in a costume nursing a broken heart and dancing seduction games, Nicolau observes this group of young adults with the awe of the outsider and the fascination of nothing ever being the same again.

Original Title
MARIA DO MAR
Director
João Rosas
Producer
João Matos, TERRATREME FILMES
Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar
Script
João Rosas
Editing
Luis Miguel Correia
Photography
Paulo Menezes
Sound
António Pedro Figueiredo, Tiago Matos
Main Actors
André G. Pinto, Mariana Gaivão, Miguel Plantier, Paola Giufridda, Maria Canelhas, Luís Araújo, Francisco Melo, Miguel Carmo
Original Language
Portuguese
Subtitles
Spanish, French, English

Film Statistics

  • 5306 Spectators
  • 50 Festival Selections
  • 48 Exhibitions
  • 4 Awards

Awards and Selections

07.2015
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal
Best Film of Portuguese Competition
08.2015
Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
10.2015
SOFIA - Meetings of Young European Cinema, Bulgaria
11.2015
International Festival of Documentary and Short Films of Bilbao, Spain
12.2015
Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
02.2016
Córtex - Festival de Curtas Metragens de Sintra, Portugal
03.2016
International Film Festival of Uruguay, Uruguay
04.2016
FESTAFILM - Festival du cinéma lusophone et francophone de Montpellier, France
04.2016
Festival du Cinema de Brive, France
04.2016
Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Argentina
05.2016
Festival de Cine y Televisión Reino de León, Spain
06.2016
Olhar de Cinema - Curitiba International Film Festival, Brazil
Best Short Film
06.2016
Diálogo de Cinema International Film Festival, Brazil
06.2016
LIMA International Indepent Film Destival, Peru
07.2016
Film Festival Ceau, Romania
07.2016
Festival Ibérico de Cinema de Badajoz, Spain
Cexeci Award of Young Jury, AEC to the best photography
10.2016
International Independent Film Festival of La Plata, Argentina
11.2016
Antofadocs - Festival Internacional de Documentales de Antofagasta, Chile
12.2016
Festival de Cinema Português em Moscovo, Russia
12.2016
Festival de Cinema Português em São Petersburgo, Russia
05.2017
Festival de Finos Filmes, Brazil
08.2021
Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium
11.2021
Gijón International Film Festival, Spain
12.2021
FICA - Aguilar del Campo, Spain
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Other Screenings

09.2015
Cinemateca Portuguesa em Setembro
03.2016
Curtas em Oviedo
07.2016
Mostra de Verão - Cineclube de Faro
08.2016
Extensão Curtas Vila do Conde - Cineclube do Porto
08.2016
Cinema ao Ar Livre - Cineclube do Porto
06.2017
CGAI - Filmoteca de Galicia
06.2017
Ciclo - No País do Cinema
11.2017
Bilbao Arte
02.2019
Cinemateca Portuguesa [Museu do Cinema] - Programa João Rosas
02.2019
Ciclo Cinema Irreal
08.2019
Budapest Short Film Festival
11.2019
Ciclo de Cinema Português no ARCUB
03.2020
Short Films For Long Days
02.2021
Filmes para a União
08.2021
Brussels Short Film Festival
11.2021
O DIA MAIS CURTO - Programa Especial Cinema Ideal
06.2022
The New Tales from Portuguese Cinema - Novo Cinema Português no Anthology Film Archives
07.2022
Há Filmes na Baixa! - Curtas Vila do Conde IFF
09.2022
Busho Film Festival - Curtas IFF program
09.2022
Extensão Curtas Vila do Conde iFF - Colina das Artes
10.2022
French Cinematheque - "Séance Portugal"
03.2023
Festival de Cine Contemporáneo Andares
12.2023
15 anos TERRATREME - Casa Comum
07.2024
Cinemateca - Programa Julho
07.2025
Programa João Rosas - Cinema Ideal
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TV Screenings

03.2018
RTP - Cinemax Março

Alto Patrocínio

Apoio

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