16 Sep

20:30

WORM Rotterdam

Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam

Screening of Cláudia Varejão's award-winning film 'Wolf and Dog', exploring themes of community, tradition, and queer identity on the Azorean island of São Miguel.

Wolf and Dog

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Wolf and Dog

by Cláudia Varejão
2022, Portugal, 111 min., Portuguese w/ English subtitles

Around Rotterdam Pride, WORM is screening Wolf and Dog, the feature debut of Portuguese documentary maker Cláudia Varejão. A film with beautiful cinematography by Rui Xavier and an experimental edge.

The film is set on São Miguel, the largest island of the Azores. Ana grows up with her mother and grandmother in a community where faith and tradition decide what is expected of a girl. Her best friend Luís is as happy in a dress as in trousers and looks for his own kind of freedom. When Ana's friend Cloé arrives from Canada, Ana falls in love for the first time and starts to ask what she really wants from her life.

Varejão worked with non-professional actors, cast from the island's own residents, among them members of the local queer community. The line between fiction and documentary blurs throughout.

The film won the main prize of the Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival in 2022, and has not been shown in the Netherlands before.

Cineville valid at the door and online on the day itself!