AT SCHOOL

Synopsis

As if she wasn’t there, indifferent to the boredom of the children around her, the teacher continues to write a poem by Camões on the blackboard. Valéria, Simão, Tomás and André exchange a glance and leave without anyone noticing it. They start running. Nobody runs like children. Run, run tiressly. Unknown landscapes, adventurous places, and… Nature: a new and intense place. Too fresh, too intense. Does Valeria and her companions have left the classroom or woke up inside a dream?

Director's Bio-filmography

Jorge Cramez was born in Angola in 1963. He has a degree in journalism from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1983/85). He then worked at the Portuguese Cinematheque and attended the Editing course at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema.

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He wrote for the cinema section of Jornal de Letras.
Since 1997, he works as script supervisor and Assistant Director, has worked with, among others, Joao Cesar Monteiro, Joao Mario Grilo, José Álvaro Morais, Werner Schroeter, Joaquim Leitão, Luis Filipe Rocha. Directs six short films and in 2006, his first feature film with “The Golden Helmet”, present in the International Competition of the Locarno Film Festival in 2007.

AT SCHOOL [2010] • X [2009] • THE GOLDEN HELMET [2006] • NUNCA ESTOU ONDE PENSAS QUE ESTOU [2005] • VENUS VELVET [2002] • ERROS MEUS [2000] • MATAR O TEMPO [1996] • DESVIO [1994]

Awards & Festivals

Ovarvídeo – In Competition: Best Fiction Award [Portugal, 2010]
18th Vila do Conde Short Film Festival – National Competition [Portugal, 2010]
XVII Caminhos do Cinema Português – Competition [Portugal, 2010]
Rotterdam International Film Festival [Netherlands, 2011]
35th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt [Germany, 2011]
Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival [Brazil, 2011]
Cineport [Brazil, 2011]
Cinemed [France, 2011]
56th Cork Film Festival [Ireland, 2011]

Cast

André Morais Simão Bárcia Tomás Ferreira de Almeida Valéria Brites special appearance Marta Mateus

Crew

directed by Jorge Cramez writen by Jorge Cramez, Edmundo Cordeiro cinematography João Pedro Plácido sound Carlos Mota • editing João Rosas sound editing Miguel Martins art department Rui Alves assistant director Bruno Sequeira production manager Isabel Silva producers Sandro Aguilar, Luís Urbano

HDCAM | 16:9 | 23’

© O SOM E A FÚRIA, 2010

Sponsors

  • with the support of ICA | MC ICA | MC
  • and the participation of RTP RTP
  • support CML CML