Margarida Vila-Nova

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.

Over a sleepless night in 1978, Francisco and Rita meet up to remember João, a recently murdered childhood friend. João had belonged to a subversive leftist group during the dictatorship, and was a film producer who had been filming an adaptation of Alexandre Herculano’s drama The Jester.