Ivo M. Ferreira‘s thriller “Projecto Global,” which has its world premiere in the Big Screen Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, has debuted its trailer (below).
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The film is set in Lisbon in the 1980s. The Carnation Revolution, which heralded Portugual’s transition to democracy, and the euphoria of freedom belong to the past. The country faces turbulent times: factories close, workers raise barricades, and politics dominates every street corner.
As social tensions deepen, the far-left armed group FP25 emerges. Its members follow a path of no return, living underground lives built on bank robberies, attacks, friendship, family, and love — all under the perpetual threat of prison or death.
As they abandon everything and everyone except each other, they begin to lose their own identities, while an officer fighting against them faces a moral dilemma of his own.
Ferreira comments: “ ‘Projecto Global’ speaks of a dream of equality from which one is forced to awaken, and of the difficulty of accepting defeat when ideas collide with reality – made up of compromises, interests, pettiness, and renunciations. We swing between the euphoria of wanting to change the world and creeping despair.”
The cast is led by Jani Zhao, Rodrigo Tomás and José Pimentão. The screenplay is by Ferreira and Hélder Beja. The producers are Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar and Donato Rotunno. The lead production company is O Som E A Fúria. The film is co-produced by Tarantula.
In 1998, Ferreira’s short film “O que foi” was released, and his first feature film, “Em Volta,” came out in 2002. In 2006, he received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to attend a screenplay writing course at the London International Film School, which led him to write and direct “Águas Mil,” screened at several film festivals in 2009.
In 2010, he released “The Foreigner and Vai com o Vento.” In 2016, he wrote and directed “Letters From War,” a feature film based on the book by António Lobo Antunes, which premiered in competition at the Berlinale. His next film, “Empire Hotel,” shot in Macau, was released in 2018.
Leo Barraclough
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