23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

Between Light and Nowhere

Joana de Sousa

Portugal
2023, 21'

Cosmos, dolphins, loneliness and techno. Butterflies, lovers and raves. We close our eyes, and travel the entire universe in a single night.

It’s Summer and it feels like everything is melting. The body melts in sweat and the afternoon fades into endless nights. Weird dreams invade Shade’s sleep and unexplainable lights appear in the sky. Between work, home and friends, Shade seems to be floating. They are in suspension, in an intermediate state in which the reality of the world does not sustain itself.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT:

Between Light and Nowhere follows a group of young queer people in their search for a safe space. Loneliness, ecstasy and the cosmos are interwoven, carrying us beyond the mundane surface of reality. We can say that raves are “temporary autonomous zones”, moments in which you can enter a suspension of reality and incorporate urges that are both utopian and dystopian. Since college, there have been people involved in the creation of moments like this in my wide circle of friends. We organize meetings, art showcases and raves in which we build alternative ways of existing and inhabiting a place. We gather, above all, to dream together. Little by little, an urge to build a film around this community started to grow. I wanted to crystalize in some sort of way this state of suspension. Between Light and Nowhere is a film about aliens, raves and dolphins but, above all, about the search for a place in which we can really be ourselves.

National Competition

SCREENINGS

May 02, Tuesday, 19:00 (72')

Cinema São Jorge, Room Manoel de Oliveira • C.222

May 03, Wednesday, 10:45 (72')

Cinema São Jorge, Room 3 • C.9802

May 05, Friday, 21:45 (72')

Cinema São Jorge, Room 3 • C.225

INFO

PREMIERE TYPE
World
ORIGINAL TITLE
Entre a Luz e o Nada
LANGUAGE
Português / English
SUBTITLES
Portuguese / English
SCRIPT
Joana de Sousa
CAST
Laura Gama Martins, Shade de Sousa Graça, Eric Eric, Inês Gaboleiro, Daniel Pereira, David Pissarra, Pedro Antunes, Marta Fatal, Marta de Sousa Correia, Rodrigo Pedro, André Januário, Luís Torgal, Pedro Rocha, Jorge Baptista, Diogo Batista, Ricardo Branco
PHOTOGRAPHY
Manuel Pinho Braga
SOUND
Marcelo Tavares
EDITING
Laura Gama Martins, Joana de Sousa, Deborah Viegas
PRODUCER
Pedro Duarte, Raquel Rolim Batista
PRODUCTION
Primeira Idade

BIO

Joana de Sousa is a programmer and filmmaker. She graduated in Communication Sciences and Cinema in Lisbon and received a scholarship to study Documentary Filmmaking at DocNomads, a joint master’s program across universities in Portugal, Hungary and Belgium. Her first short film, Bétail (2014), was selected and awarded by several international festivals. She has been part of the programming team of Doclisboa – International Film Festival since 2015.

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