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SYNOPSIS

Inspired by the Nobel Prize winner Saramago,
Embargo tells the story of Nuno, a man who works in a sandwich stand, but who is also the man who invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry.
In a time of a petrol embargo, Nuno finds himself in a sinister situation. Blinded by the promise of success and his obsession with achieving his goals in life, he tries desperately to sell his machine.
He is mysteriously trapped in his own car and misses the once in a lifetime opportunity to finally present this invention to the world and his life is suddenly embargoed…
Embargo encloses the same kind of dark comedy you can find in the Cohen brother’s films.
The type of subtle yet powerfull humour that will reach out to everyone.
The film is based on a short story with the same title by the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature - José Saramago - the author of Blimunda and Blindness. António Ferreira has created a portuguese film that is warm, comical and so comfortably peculiar.

Director: António Ferreira
Production: PERSONA NON GRATA PICTURES
Co-Production: Vaca Films (Espanha), Diler e Associados (Brasil), Sofá Filmes (Portugal)
Producers: Tathiani Sacilotto and António Ferreira
Associate Producers: Borja Pena, Emma Lustres, Diler Trindade.
Cast: Filipe Costa, Cláudia Carvalho, Pedro Diogo, Fernando Taborda, José Raposo, Eloy Monteiro
Script: Tiago Sousa, adapted from the homonymous short-story by José Saramago
Director of Photography : Paulo Castilho
Executive Producer : Tathiani Sacilotto
Financing: ICA, IBERMEDIA and Ministry of Culture

M/12
83 min - Portugal/Spain/Brazil 2010

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ALBUM EMBARGO

ANTÓNIO FERREIRA

António Ferreira was born in Coimbra in 1970. He started working as a computer programmer while dedicating his spare time to photography, a profession that he would later abandon when leaving for Paris in 1991. In 1994 he started studying at the Lisbon Film University (ESTC). In 1996 he entered the Berlin Film Academy (dffb) where he studied for another two years. In 2000, António Ferreira went to Cannes Film Festival with the short film "Breathing (under water)" and won several prizes in international festivals. One year later he shot his first feature film "Forget everything I've told you" which became one of the most seen films in Portugal that year. In 2007, António Ferreira shoot the short film “It Wasn’t God’s Will” with which won several international film awards. In 2010, António Ferreira releases his second feature "Embargo", an adaptation from the Nobel prize winner - José Saramago. In 2011 staged its first play "The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant" from R.W. Fassbinder, for the Portuguese National Theater D. Maria II. In 2012 directs the film "Posfácio at clothing Factory" within Guimarães European Capital of Culture.

António Ferreira is a founding member and part of the direction of the Portuguese Academy of Cinema. Currently runs his production company PERSONA NON GRATA PICTURES, with which produces fiction and documentary films from various directors.

Filmography

POSFÁCIO NAS CONFECÇÕES CANHÃO (POSFÁCIO AT THE CLOTHING FACTORY)

30 min, DIG, Portugal 2012

EMBARGO
80 min, DIG, Portugal/Spain/Brazil 2010

DEUS NÃO QUIS (IT WASN’T GOD’S WILL)
15 min, 35mm, Portugal 2007

HUMANOS – A VIDA EM VARIAÇÕES (HUMANS – VARIATIONS OF LIFE)
34 min, DIG, documentary, Portugal 2006

ESQUECE TUDO O QUE TE DISSE (Forget Everything That I’ve Told You)
108 min, 35mm, Portugal/France 2002

RESPIRAR DEBAIXO D‘ÁGUA (Breathing under water)
45 min, 35mm, Portugal/Germany 2000

„WC“
4 min, 35mm, Germany 1998

„Gel Fatal“
8 min, 16mm, Portugal 1996

OTHER SCREENINGS

02/11/2010 - Olhão - Cineclube Olhão - Portugal
11/11/2010 - Sines - Centro de Artes de Sines - Portugal
21/11/2010 - Avanca - Cineclube de Avanca - Portugal
25/11/2010 - Tavira - Cineclube de Tavira - Portugal
30/11/2010 - Coimbra - Fila K Cineclube (Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Velha) - Portugal
03/12/2010 - Faro - Cineclube de Faro - Portugal
29/12/2010 - Abrantes - Cineclube Espalhafitas de Abrantes - Portugal
30/12/2010 - Guimarães - Cineclube de Guimarães - Portugal
03/01/2011 - Caldas da Rainha - Centro Cultural de Congressos das Caldas da Rainha - Portugal
May/June 2011 - Ciclo de Cinema Europeu - Buenos Aires,
San Miguel de Tucumán, Córdoba, Bahía Blanca, Salta, Rosário, Mendoza - Argentina
April 27 ^th - May 25 ^th and June 2011 - Festival Eurocine 2011 - Colombia and Ecuador
5 - 26 May 2011 - 15ª edição do Festival de Cinema Europeu na Romania - Bucareste,
Brasov, Iasi, Targu-Mures, Timisoara - Romania
1 - 6 June 2011 - Incontri Cinematografici di Stresa (ICS)- Stresa - Italy
14 - 30 June 2011 - Festival de Cinema Europeu - EUROSCÒPIO - Caracas - Venezuela
3 - 9 June 2011 - II Mostra de Cinema Português Contemporâneo - Caracas - Venezuela
August - December 2011 - Mostra de Cinema Ibero-Americano do Chile - Chile
26 October - 18 November 2011 - Festival de Cinema Europeu - Lima - Peru
CANAIS TV CINE - May 2011 - TV Channel
August 2011 - 1ª Encontro de Escritores Lusófonos - Portugal
November 2011 - Jornada de Cinema em Tunes - Tunísia
15-20 April 2011 - Ciclo de Cinema Português 2012 - Rabat, Marrocos
14 - 30 June 2012 - EUROSCÒPIO 2012 - Caracas - Venezuela