A Noite / The Night
Regina Pessoa
Portugal / 1999 / 6' 27''Screenings
Synopsis
It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
Regina Pessoa (1969, Coimbra) graduated at the Porto University of Fine Arts. In 1992 begins working in Filmógrafo, where she collaborates as an animator. In 1999 animates and directs her first author film A Noite (The Night), engraving in plaster plates. In 2005 animates and directs her second short animation film Tragic Story with Happy Ending, whose project received three prizes in Annecy, and more than 50 other awards and distinctions in film festivals.
Director
Regina Pessoa
Production
Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto
categories
Focus on Portugal 1