European premiere

Terra Vil

Local title
Rikutud maa
Original title
Terra Vil
Director
Luis Campos
Country
Italy, Portugal
Year
2025
Festival
25th Youth and Children's Film Festival
Programme
International Youth Competition Programme
Genre
Drama
Subject
environment, alcoholism, addictions, child-parent relationships, education, coming of age

The most important thing is family.

A 12-year-old boy lives on the riverbank with his unstable father, who struggles with alcoholism. Next door lives a woman with her teenage daughters and the boy becomes particularly devoted to them. The five of them form a kind of dysfunctional family, based on the traditional livelihood of fishing and selling lamprey. However, in a year ravaged by drought and the effects of climate change, the business is barely profitable and the father's erratic behaviour makes the situation increasingly untenable.

Director
Luis Campos
Screenwriter
Luis Campos
Cast
William Cesnek, Ruben Gomes, Lúcia Moniz, Francisca Sobrinho, Beatriz Relvas
Producer
Luis Campos, Ana Almeida, Luigi Chimienti, Alessandro Amato
Cinematographer
Pedro Patrocínio
Production Design
Maura Carneiro
Editing
Cláudia Silvestre
Music
Emiliano Mazzenga
Sound
Bernardo Theriaga, Stefano Polidoro
Production
Matiné
Distribution
to be confirmed
Runtime
Language
Portuguese
Subtitles
Estonian
Director
Luis Campos

Luis Campos is an awarded filmmaker, PhD in Media_Arts and alumni of EAVE Producers Workshop, Berlinale Talents, Rotterdam Lab, ZFF Academy, Locarno Match Me and ACE Producers Mentoring Programme. Founder of GUIÕES – Portuguese Language Screenplay Festival, PLOT – Professional Script Lab and DRAMA.pt, collected experiences in film development and production at renowned companies such as RT Features (Brazil), Savage Film (Belgium), BRO Cinema and SPi (Portugal) before fully dedicating to his own production company Matiné in 2023.

Terra Vil (2025) feature, post-production
Monte Clérigo (2023) fiction short film
Boca Cava Terra (2022) fiction short film
Carga (2017) fiction short film

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8th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening040816 / Rikutud maa
SubtitlesEstonian
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4th Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening101317 / Rikutud maa
SubtitlesEstonian
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