Noise

After a construction site collapse, Paulo loses his job for exposing unsafe working conditions. His marriage begins to deteriorate, while his sister Anabela lives with their father, still haunted by his experience of the colonial war. She works as a nurse caring for a terminally ill patient. Once-large families are now struggling simply to survive within the circumstances life has left them.

Duration: 100’
Production year: 2008
Country: PT, BR
Language: PT Subtitles: EN

Upcoming sessions

14:00

NOS Vasco da Gama Cinemas

Room 4

Torino Film Festival 2008 — Cipputi Award
San Sebastian Film Festival 2008
São Paulo Film Festival 2009

Tiago Guedes, Frederico Serra

With agility and intelligence, Tiago Guedes moves between film, theatre and television, earning national and international recognition for his films. His first features Blood Curse (2005) and Noise (2008) were both selected for the Official Selection of the Torino Film Festival, with the latter receiving the Cipputi Award for Best Film. With The Domain (2019), his most ambitious project to date, which garnered numerous national and international awards, he competed at the Venice Film Festival, represented Portugal in the race for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Remains of the Wind (2022) also premiered in the Official Selection at Cannes, and in 2026, the director returned to Cannes with Aquí, an adaptation of J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus trilogy, presented in the Cannes Première section.