Hands in the Fire
Young film student Maria do Mar travels the Douro River region to document old manor houses for her thesis project. Naively confident in the power of cinema to capture reality, she is shaken upon discovering the dark secrets of the final manor on her list.
Veteran Portuguese filmmaker and artist Margarida Gil playfully uses the narrative foundations of Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw, exploring some of its ignored passages. Her house of horrors being rather a place of ubiquitous pictural beauty, has her innocent young protagonist, who is obsessed about 'The Real in Cinema', lost her way or, on the contrary, found the grail of her quest?
CC: This screening in cinema and online will include Closed Captions.