August

Filmed in the Serra da Arrábida, August takes us back to the summer of 1964, when Portugal was still immersed in the Colonial War. Far from that conflict, Carlos, a professor and cellist, spends his holidays at the beach with his friends Alda and Dário. Amid the heat, the sea, and a sense of suspended time, the three surrender to the subtle rites of friendship and solitude. An adaptation of La Spiaggia, the 1942 novel by Cesare Pavese.

Copy scanned and restored by the Portuguese Film Archive – Film Museum as part of the FILMar project, integrated into the European EEA Grants 2020-2024 Funding Mechanism.