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In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.Read moreLess
In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.
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In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.
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- Director
- André Gil Mata
- Producer
- Marta Lima
- Producer
- Pedro Fernandes Duarte
- Editor
- Cláudia Ribeiro
- Producer
- Luís Palito
- Screenplay
- André Gil Mata
- Writer
- Franz Kafka
- Producer
- André Gil Mata
- Producer
- João Vladimiro
- Editor
- Fabiano Teixeira Mota
- Director of Photography
- Frederico Lobo
- Editor
- André Gil Mata
- Producer
- Frederico Lobo

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David Almeida
António Júlio
André Gil Mata