The Locarno Movie Competition, at its 78th version this yr, is inviting audiences to discover The Seasons (As Estações).

The film is the solo directorial characteristic debut from Maureen Fazendeiro (medium-length movie Les Habitants, brief Black Solar), a French filmmaker and casting director dwelling in Lisbon who is named a long-time collaborator of Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes, with whom she co-directed The Tsugua Diaries and co-wrote Grand Tour. The movie will world premiere within the Swiss competition’s predominant competitors lineup on Aug. 11.

The movie is predicated on accounts and tales collected throughout its preparation and the non-public
archives and fieldnotes of German archaeologists Georg and Vera Leisner, who studied megalithic websites in Iberia.

”Weaving collectively accounts of rural staff and area notes of a few archaeologists, newbie footage and scientific drawings, legends, poems, and songs, As Estações is a journey via the true historical past and the tales of a area in southern Portugal, Alentejo, and a portrait of the individuals who have lived there,” notes a synopsis on the competition web site.

Fazendeiro herself, in a director’s assertion, describes the film as “an archaeological movie,” explaining: “It excavates the panorama, the voices, and gestures of the folks of Alentejo to uncover the vestiges of a shared historical past, one in all wars and revolutions, worry and resistance, permanence and metamorphosis.”

Written and directed by Fazendeiro, The Seasons options cinematography from Robin Fresson and Marta Simões. As forged members, Simão Ramalho, Cláudio da Silva, Ana Potra, Manuel Leitão, and António Sozinho are listed, together with voice forged members Gerti Drassl, Michaela Kaspar, Raphael von Bargen, Toni Slama, António Abel, and Simão Romeu.

Worldwide gross sales on the co-production between Portugal, France, Spain, and Austria, are being dealt with by Sq. Eyes.

THR can unveil a trailer for The Seasons, which options, amongst different issues, archeologists, rocks, flowers, the moon, numerous goats, and such traces as “I heard a narrative” and “As soon as upon a time.”

Watch the total trailer under and resolve for your self if you wish to hear a narrative.