Adriano Luz

A whirlwind of adventure, revelations, violent passion, and love affairs, wrapped in a rhapsodic voyage from Europe to Brazil, forge an orphan’s fate

Taking two antiracist and antiauthoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side as a point of departure, SOUTH presents an expressionistic investigation of the power of individual and collective voice. Interlinked with director Morgan Quaintance’s own biography, the film also considers questions of mortality and the will to transcend a world typified by concrete relations.

When Paulo Duarte is found dead from a gunshot wound in the port of Vigo, the apparent suicide convinces nobody; his bosses, the police, or sister.

Blessed with beauty and a rebellious spirit, Annie Silva Pais was the daughter of Portugal’s political police director. In 1965, she left her husband and family to join the Cuban revolution, secretly in love with Che Guevara. Based on her remarkable life. From Walter Presents, in Portuguese with English subtitles.

Spies, lies and secrets flourish in Glória do Ribatejo, 1968, as a privileged Radio Free Europe engineer plays all the angles of Cold War Portugal.