27/08/2015 - Capitão Falcão will also be flying to the World Film Festival

Portuguese director Luís Filipe Rocha’s new film Cinzento e Negro [+see also:
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Shot in the last quarter of 2014 in Lisbon and the Azores, Cinzento e Negro tells the story of David (Miguel Borges), who steals a lot of money from an old man and escapes to the Azores, where he begins a new life and falls in love with a lonesome local woman named Marina (Mónica Calle). But no crime goes without punishment, and the couple will soon be chased by a former colleague of David’s, Maria (Joana Bárcia), and a policeman, Lucas (Filipe Duarte), who wish to recover the stolen money and keep it for themselves.

Production company Fado Filmes, owned by Luís Galvão Teles, is fairly concise when it comes to describing the plot, announcing it as a “volcanic story of betrayal, theft, escape, chase and revenge, love, loneliness and death; a Greek tragedy in the setting of a western”.

Cinzento e Negro is Rocha’s first effort since The Other Side [+see also:
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Also screening at Montreal is João Leitão’s Capitão Falcão [+see also:
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