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Fire of Wind

Marta Mateus
Portugal / Switzerland / France
72'

The vine bore fruit and it’s harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter. They share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the history of a landscape. We enter a long night, where nature also speaks. The fiery wind that brings the heatwaves is burning.

Marta Mateus’s debut film is very muchan event: within her refined conceptual apparatus we find both a perfect distillation of the history of Portuguese cinema to date – in terms of its rich, luxuriously illuminated compositions as much as  its affinity with the working class – and a new, novel voice proposing a syncretic vision of the country’s identity and history. In Fire of Wind past and present intertwine in a complex, deeply allegorical parable –  see the symbol of the bull, which opens a vast bouquet of mythological references (both Cretan and contemporary). The film allows itself to be read like a canto, an ode to those who have been battered by the relentless winds of earth and time. (Flavia Dima)

Screening date and location

September 25th, 6:00 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Awards & Festivals

Marta Mateus

 Marta Mateus is a filmmaker and producer. She studied philosophy, drawing and photography, music and theater. Her first film, Farpões Baldios (2017), was shown at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes, selected for various festivals, and won the Grand Prize at Vila do Conde and Hiroshima. She has participated in several group exhibitions with video and sound installations. In 2018, she was an artist-member of the Casa de Velázquez, Académie de France à Madrid and created the production company Clarão Companhia. Fogo do Vento is her first feature film.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Director: Marta Mateus
  • Screenplay: Marta Mateus
  • Cast: Soraia Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata, Safir Eizner, José Moura, Maria Clara Madeira
  • Cinematography: Vítor Carvalho, Marta Mateus
  • Editing: Marta Mateus, Claire Atherton
  • Sound: Hugo Leitão
  • Sound editing: Elsa Ferreira
  • Produced by: Clarão Companhia
  • Co-production: Casa Azul Films, Les Films d'ici, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
  • Producer: Marta Mateus, Pedro Costa
  • Co-producer: Fabrice Aragno, Richard Copans
  • Production manager: Joana Ramos

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The vine bore fruit and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter. They share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the history of a landscape. We enter a long night, where nature also speaks. The fiery wind that brings the heatwaves is burning.

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