The Domain

The saga of a family who owns one of Europe’s largest estates on the southern bank of the Tagus River, The Domain delves into the secrets of their land while tracing Portugal’s historical, political, social and economic transformations from the 1940s, through the Carnation Revolution to the present day.

Duration: 164’
Production year: 2019
Country: PT
Language: PT

Upcoming sessions

15:00

NOS Vasco da Gama Cinemas

Room 4

Venice Film Festival 2019 — Bisato d'Oro Award for Best Director
TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival 2019 — Special Presentations
São Paulo Film Festival 2019

Tiago Guedes

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.