Before the Mountains

José Mazeda

IndieLisboa 2020 • Sessões Especiais | Special Screenings

Portugal, Fiction, 2020, 20′

It was during the shooting of António Campo’s Terra Fria (1992) in the region of Trás-os-Montes, that the producer, now director, João Mazeda heard this true story. A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.

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