The Night’s Substance
Category
Drama, Fiction
Director
Bernard Lessa
Year
2021
Country
Portugal
Runtime
01:29:00
Budget
60000 USD
Other Festivals
XVII Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema (Not announced) Salvador, BAHIA October 27, 2021 Official Selection Brazil 28th Festival de Cinema de Vitória Vítória, ESPÍRITO SANTO November 23, 2021 Opening Film Brazil 10th Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival | AWARDED Curitiba October 14, 2021 Honorable Mention Best Brazilian Feature Film, Other Perspectives, and New Perspectives Brazil 10th Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival Curitiba October 6, 2021 World Premiere Official Selection - Outros Olhares Brazil 14th Festival Internacional de Cine Africano de Argentina - FICAA Buenos Aires November 1, 2021 Argentinian Premiere Official Selection Argentina 52º Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro Brasília November 27, 2019 ""Best Movie"" in the Work In Progress Brazil Brasil CineMundi – 11th Internacional Coproduction Meeting October 29, 2020 Coproduction Meeting (Films in Post Production) Official Selection Brazil
Jaiane is a woman on her 30’s that drives an Uber for a living and sings samba amateurishly. Aissa is a sailor from Mozambique that, due to an electrical problem in his cargo ship, spends some days in the city of Vitória. Solitude and drift complement the feeling of hostility that Jaiane experiences living in Brazil of these days, as Aissa attempts to have a real experience in solid ground. In Zilda’s Bar, they finally meet. A passion is born. If this passion alone might not be enough to put end on the drift of their lives, it can at least give them the feel that they’re alive, and that might have been just what they needed to go on.
Logline | After all, what is it that unites all the lovers? Is it sadness?