23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

A conquista de faro

Country: Portugal

Year: 2005

Duration: 30'

As a summer's day draws to a close, two couples meet in a chance encounter in a country inn near Faro. Their conversation comes round to a story about how in 1250 the Moorish-occupied city of Faro fell to Portuguese king Afonso III. But the key to what happened is fiction, and not what passes for fact. Or as one character says, "There's more padding than plain truth in History. You have to draw the line somewhere!" And as the 4 of them talk round the same table, the ties and alliances which marked that remote episode begin once again to take form. We haven't changed so much after all…

"It's a tale of bigamy and double betrayal: King Alfonso betrays his wife and the infidel betrays his own father." (R. Azevedo Gomes)

FILM DIRECTOR

Biography

film director

Rita Azevedo Gomes

(Lisbon, portugal, 1952) Since her first feature film, The Sound of the Earth Shaking (1990), she has developed an independent approach to cinema. Her filmography includes Fragile as the World (2001), The 15th Stone (2004), A Woman’s Revenge (2011), Correspondences (2016), The Portuguese Woman (2018), Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies (2019), co-directed with Pierre Léon and Jean-Louis Schefer. She also develops artistic projects in theatre and opera. Film programmer at the Cinemateca Portuguesa.

FILMOGRAFIA

O Som da Terra a Tremer (1990), Frágil Como o Mundo (2001), Altar (video, 2003), A Conquista de Faro (cm, 2005), A 15ª Pedra (doc, 2007), A Colecção Invisível (2009), A Vingança de Uma Mulher (2012), Correspondências (2016), A Portuguesa (2018), Danses macabres, squelettes et autres fantaisies (coregia Pierre Léon e Jean-Louis Schefer, doc, 2019), O Ah! das coisas, 6 de Abril 2020 (cm, 2020), O Trio em Mi Bemol (2022).