What stops two people from being together? A third one. What stops one person from fighting for another? Nothing.
Pedro lives in the suburbs, where he works with his father in a garage. Everyday he takes the bus downtown where he goes to school and meets his friends. It's summertime and they all go down to the river where they spend their free time or even their school time. Among joints, motorbike riding and swimming, everything seems to go well with this group of friends, until the moment when Pedro and his best friend find out that both of them like the same girl. Pedro finds himself inside a downward spiral, where everything around him seems to fall apart. Like a magnet attracts the iron, Pedro seems to attract problems, from the school until his relationship with his parents.
This is the story of Pedro, who by having his head being pushed down so much learned how to breathe under water.
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ANTÓNIO FERREIRA
António Ferreira was born in Coimbra in 1970. He started working as a computer programmer while dedicating his spare time to photography, a profession that he would later abandon when leaving for Paris in 1991. In 1994 he started studying at the Lisbon Film University (ESTC). In 1996 he entered the Berlin Film Academy (dffb) where he studied for another two years. In 2000, António Ferreira went to Cannes Film Festival with the short film "Breathing (under water)" and won several prizes in international festivals. One year later he shot his first feature film "Forget everything I've told you" which became one of the most seen films in Portugal that
year. Recently António Ferreira shoot the short film “It Wasn’t God’s Will” which will be premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival 2007.
He currently lives and works in Coimbra - Portugal, where he runs his production company ZED FILMES, producing fiction and documentary films for several directors.
Filmography
DEUS NÃO QUIS (IT WASN’T GOD’S WILL)
15 min, 35mm, Portugal 2007
HUMANOS – A VIDA EM VARIAÇÕES (HUMANS – VARIATIONS OF LIFE)
34 min, dv, documentary, Portugal 2006
ESQUECE TUDO O QUE TE DISSE (Forget Everything That I’ve Told You)
108 min, 35mm, Portugal/France 2002
05.2000 - Festival de Cannes – Cinefondation competition - França
03.2001 - Caminhos do Cinema Português – Coimbra - Portugal
07.2000 - Festival Internacional de Vila do Conde – Portugal ..................Prémio jovem cineasta ..................Prémio de melhor realização .................."Onda Curta" – prémio especial RTP
09.2000 - XXVII Jornada internacional de Cinema da Bahia – Brasil
09.2000 - New York Int. Independent Film Festival & L.A. – USA ..................Alexandre Pinto – Prémio de melhor actor
10.2000 - MIFF – Film Festival Internazionale di Milano - Italia
11.2000 - 5º Festival Int. de Cine Independente de Ourense – Galiza ..................Prémio Melhor Filme "Eixo Atlântico"
11.2000 - Festival du Film Court de Brest – França ..................Prémio de Melhor Média Metragem Europeia
01.2001 - Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers - França
04.2001 - XIX Festival Cinematográfico Int. del Uruguay - Uruguay
05.2001 - 7º Fest. Ibérico de Cortometrajes Badajoz - Espanha ..................Prémio de Melhor Filme ..................Prémio de Melhor Realização ..................Prémio de Melhor Fotografia
02.2000 - Curtas Metragens II – Forum Lisboa – Portugal
03.2000 - Fantasporto – Portugal
04.2000 - Festival Luso-Brasileiro de Stª Mª da Feira - Portugal
05.2000 - Children & Young Film Festival Zlín – Republica Checa
07.2000 - Karlovy Vary Film Festival – Forum of Ind. – Rep. Checa
09.2000 - Filmfest Hamburg – Alemanha
12.2000 - 6th Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival – Brasil
01.2001 - 30º festival Internacional de Roterdão - Holanda
02.2001 - Fest. Int. de Delhi de Curtas Metragens - India
04.2001 - 6th Int. Film Festival of Kerala - India
05.2001 - Break 21, Ljubljana - Eslovénia
07.2001 - 8. OpenEyes - Marbug Film Festival - Alemanha
06.2000 - Curtas Metragens II (ext.) – Aveiro – Portugal
09.2000 - World Filmclub Festival in Reggio di Calbria – Italia
09.2000 - Plano XXI – Glasgow Art Fair – Escócia
11.2000 - Mostra de Cinema Português – Paris – França
02.2001 - Mostra de Cinema e Vídeo dos Países Lusófonos, Rio-Brasil
08.2001 - Mostra de Cinema Português em NY - Brooklyn Academy of Music – EUA
09.2001 - New Portuguese Culture Festival – S.Francisco – EUA
11.2002 - Festival de Cine Ibérico Americano – Huelva – Spain
11.2002 - Festibérico – Delft - Holland
10.2003 - "Dias Portugueses", Lodz - Polónia
03.2004 - Mostra de Cinema Português - Echternach - Luxemburgo
04.2004 - Mostra de Cinema Português - Glasgow - Reino Unido
04.2004 - Mostra de Cinema Português - Lyon - França
05.2004 - Mostra de Cinema Português - Universidade de Toronto
06.2004 - Mostra de Cinema Português - Recife - Brasil
03.2005 - Eurocine 2005 - Bogotá - Colombia
05.2006 - Mostra de Cinema Português – Hamburgo – Alemanha
09.2006 - Mostra de Cinema Português – Genebra, Sion – Suiça
04.2007 - Aud. Mun. Augusto Cabrita - Barreiro
05.2007 - Aud. Álvaro Carneiro - Braga
12.2007 - Mostra de Cinema Português - Londres
