Liberdade e Palácios de Pena na Viennale 2011

Luanda, Angola. Two young lovers, Liberdade, an Angolan boy, and his Chinese girlfriend, Betty, navigate through the complications of their burgeoning identities.

By Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt: 2011: 59 Min

INFO viennale: palácios

Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past – one consumed by fear and desire – the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression. Palácios de pena is about a culturally inherited fear in Portugal, linked to political and social oppression during the Inquisition and Fascism. (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt)