UM DIA FRIO - Festival del film Locarno

Presents
UM DIA FRIO
(COLD DAY)
A film by Cláudia
Varejão
62nd Locarno International Film Festival
Leopards of Tomorrow – Short Film Competition
9th August at 2:00pm at “LA SALA” (Official Screening)
Maria João Mayer | (+351) 91 936 57 59 | [email protected]
www.filmesdotejo.pt
Statement
I intend this film to be a portrait of incongruity. With characters whose
relationships are at once both trivial and complex, and who inhabit their
own worlds in isolation. I am drawn by the possibility of portraying
intimacy through the gestures and words that identify us. I want to make
a film where for a moment it is possible to forget fiction, one where the
human landscape insinuates itself, full on, in every frame. Where the
more predictable and even routine the characters’ actions and
situations are, the greater the possibility (and probability) of getting to
the core of our being. It is here, in this apparent simplicity that my
motivation for this idea resides. An idea that will develop around the
people whose antagonist is no other than life itself, with nothing (and
everything) heroic that that involves.
Cláudia Varejão
Lisbon, May 2009
Synopsis
COLD DAY is a portrait of an elemental relationship, one that is prior to
the outside world, the family. During a winter in Lisbon, a father, a
mother, a son and a daughter arrange the itinerary for a day spent by
themselves.
With
ADRIANO LUZ | ÁGATA PINHO | ANA RODRIGUES |
ISABEL RUTH | MARIA D’AIRES | VICENTE WALLENSTEIN |
Screenplay
GRAÇA CASTANHEIRA
CLÁUDIA VAREJÃO
Music
BERNARDO SASSETTI
Director of Photography
RUI XAVIER
Assistant Director
ÂNGELA SEQUEIRA
Sound
ADRIANA BOLITO
Editing
CLÁUDIA VAREJÃO
PEDRO MARQUES
Production Manager
Sound Design
Producers
PATRÍCIA FARIA
MIGUEL MARTINS
MARIA JOÃO MAYER
FRANÇOIS D’ARTEMARE
Co-production
CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN
FOUNDATION (Creativity and Artistic
Creation Programme)
RTP2 (Portuguese Public Channel)
HD1080 25P | COLOR | STEREO | 27’
Cláudia Varejão
was born in Porto in 1980.
She began her film studies in
Lisbon, first on camera and
then later took a directing course at Restart. She has also done an
intensive course on feature film directing at the International Film
Academy in São Paulo and, undertook further film studies with the
German Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin as part of the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation’s Creativity Program.
She directed the documentary “Falta-me”, which was awarded an
honourable mention at DOCLISBOA 2005, and the IT’S ALL TRU FESTIVAL,
2006, Brazil) and “Fim de Semana” on the official selection of PIFF – the
Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea and Indie Lisboa 2007. She
has also worked as cinematographer on several other documentaries.
“Cold Day” is her second fiction short film.
Established by Maria João Mayer and François d'Artemare who both
developed a solid individual experience in Portugal and France, Filmes
do Tejo is today an active production company internationally
recognized for having discovered many talents in Portugal (recently
ARENA, by João Salaviza - Palme d'Or for Short Film at the Cannes Film
Festival 2009) and to provide renowned directors such as Manoel de
Oliveira, the opportunity to continue their work in complete freedom.
Recent production’s
In development
The Stange Case of Angélica
Nas Penas dos Pássaros
(Feature Film)
(Feature Film)
Manoel de Oliveira
Margarida Cardoso
In production
The Children’s Republic
(Feature Film)
Entre a Dor e o Nada (Feature Film)
Flora Gomes
Alberto Graça
Completed Films 2009
Eccentricities of a blond haired girl (Feature Film)
Manoel de Oliveira
Águas Mil ( Thousand Waters ) (Feature Film)
Ivo Ferreira
Goodnight Irene
Paolo Marinou-Blanco
(Feature Film)
Christophe Colomb – l’Enigme (Feature Film)
Manoel de Oliveira
Piquenique nas Ilhas Assolapadas (Short Film)
Jeanne Waltz
Arena
João Salaviza
(Short Film)
Palme d’Or of Short Film- Cannes 2009
Um Dia Frio
(Short Film)
Cláudia Varejão