Today we remember the images of the Cannes Film Festival’s staircase in the official screening of REMAINS OF THE WIND, with director Tiago Guedes, actors Albano Jerónimo, Isabel Abreu, Nuno Lopes, João Pedro Vaz, Maria João Pinho, Gonçalo Waddington, Leonor Vasconcelos , Maria Abreu, Afonso Laginha and Rui Pedro Silva, director of photography Mark Bliss, producer Paulo Branco and executive producer Ana Pinhão Moura.

It's been 16 years since a film by a portuguese director made the famous "montée des marches" and we welcome this important return, an honor that, in the last forty years, only Manoel de Oliveira (several times) and Pedro Costa (once) have had.

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REMAINS OF THE WIND was part of the Official Selection - Special Screenings of the 75th edition of the Cannes festival, the most important film festival in the world.

REMAINS OF THE WIND hits cinemas in Portugal on the 22nd of September.

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It stood out at the Cannes Film Festival in the Official Selection – Special Screenings, where it had its world premiere; was highlighted by critics and continues to receive plaudits from the viewers. Remains of the Wind is the new film by Tiago Guedes and arrives in the theaters in Portugal on the 22nd of September.

Remains of the Wind was presented to the world for the first time in this latest edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The director, producers and cast had the honor of climbing the famous staircase of what is the most important film festival in the world – which a Portuguese director has not stepped on for 16 years. In this new project, Tiago Guedes starts from a pagan tradition in a village in the interior of Portugal to tell the story of a group of people to whom the past resurfaces, allowing tragedy to settle in.

Albano Jerónimo, the chameleon actor, stands out in one of the main roles, along with Isabel Abreu, Nuno Lopes and Gonçalo Waddington. Also noteworthy are Maria João Pinho, Leonor Vasconcelos, young actors Ivo Arroja, Afonso Laginha, Rui Pedro Silva Teixeira and Maria Abreu, co-writer Tiago Rodrigues and director of photography Mark Bliss.

Remains of the Wind will hit cinemas in Portugal, from north to south, on the 22nd of September.

Its premiere in France is also scheduled for November 3rd, where it will be distributed by Alfama Films, co-producer of the film and international seller.

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«While closing a drama where much of what we are, as Portuguese, is highlighted, "Remains of the Wind" lives off a solid and confident direction of the narrative by the director, the astonishing photography by Mark Bliss and the remarkable work of some of the elite of Portuguese actors and actresses, offering us a film that certainly deserved an entry in the competition and that already has an appointment with the national public for the next 22nd of September.» João Antunes, Jornal de Notícias.

«One of the many small miracles of Guedes' work is being able to be a film by actors and at the same time a chamber recital, above all because it is in the group work of the actors that the most fulminant thing happens here, but also because each shot-sequence contains a pleasure and a desire for pure cinema (…)» Rui Tendinha, Diário de Notícias.

«Director Tiago Guedes takes us to a remote village in Portugal where a barbaric pagan ritual conducted a quarter of a century ago still asserts a powerful hold on a group of adults who find themselves revisiting repressed memories in the wake of a fresh tragedy. A palpable sense of menace hovers over the proceedings (…).
Remains of the Wind’s rural setting is lushly photographed by Mark Bliss, with wind turbines in the distance the only indication of modernity. But what might feel timeless could also be perceived as archaic, and Guedes (The Domain) is critical of a community beholden to old ways of thinking. This is a patriarchal society with few economic opportunities, and once Paulo’s body is discovered, the film drifts into darker tonal terrain, the characters seemingly draped in shadows that reflect the unresolved tension from their shared childhood.» Tim Grierson, Screen International.

This Saturday, May 21st, a Portuguese director climbs the steps of the Cannes Film Festival again, 16 years after the last time.

Sixteen years after the last climb of a film by a Portuguese director up the famous steps of Cannes (Juventude em Marcha, by Pedro Costa, in 2006), Portugal once again has a director making the "montée des marches" of the Cannes Film Festival in their own right, an honor that, in the last forty years, only Manoel de Oliveira (on several occasions) and, as we mentioned, Pedro Costa (once) had.

It is a unique moment of reaffirmation of filmmaker Tiago Guedes, after his auspicious presence in the Official Selection in Competition in Venice of his previous film, A Herdade (2019), also selected for the most important section of TIFF, and which ran all over the world having received several awards.

Paulo Branco, an habitué of the marches in recent decades (there are dozens of films he produced, as sole or main producer, that climbed the steps of the Grand Palais) achieves this recognition again for a Portuguese filmmaker, by the largest festival of the world after this long break, with RESTOS DO VENTO, produced by Leopardo Filmes, the only Portuguese film in the festival's Official Selection.

Next Saturday, May 21, at 6:30 pm, time of the official screening of the film, director Tiago Guedes, the main actors of the film, Albano Jerónimo, Nuno Lopes, Isabel Abreu, João Pedro Vaz, Gonçalo Waddington, Leonor Vasconcelos and Maria João Pinho, young actors Ivo Arroja, Afonso Laginha, Rui Pedro Silva Teixeira and Maria Abreu, co-writer Tiago Rodrigues, cinematographer Mark Bliss, producer Paulo Branco and executive producer Ana Pinhão Moura will climb.

Leopardo Filmes also announces that RESTOS DO VENTO will premiere in Portugal on the 22nd of September, and has already set its premiere in France for the 3rd of November, where it will be distributed by Alfama Films, which is also the international seller of the film.

The Cannes Film Festival (May 17th to 28th, 2022) has just announced that REMAINS OF THE WIND, a feature film by Tiago Guedes, with a screenplay by Tiago Rodrigues and Tiago Guedes, produced by Paulo Branco, is part of the Official Selection — “Special Screenings” — Out of Competition, where it will have its world premiere.

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.

REMAINS OF THE WIND is a Portuguese-French co-production by Leopardo Filmes, RTP, APM Produções, Alfama Films and ARTE France Cinéma, and features a remarkable cast of portuguese actors, among them Albano Jerónimo, Nuno Lopes, Isabel Abreu, João Pedro Vaz, Gonçalo Waddington and Leonor Vasconcelos.

OFFICIAL SCREENING:
Saturday, May 21st, 6:30pm, Salle Buñuel

PRESS SCREENING:
Sunday, May 22nd, 2:00pm, Salle Bazin

MARKET SCREENINGS:
Saturday, May 21st, 9:00am, Arcades 1
Sunday, May 22nd, 9:00am, Arcades 1