A film of El Gouna Film Festival
الحياة المضيئةThe Luminous Life
- Director
- João Rosas
- Countries
- Portugal, France
- Year
- 2025
- Running time
- 99 min
- Language
- Portuguese
At El Gouna Film Festival
- Eighth edition · 2025Official Selection Out of CompetitionThe 2025 edition
What it is about
It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.
Key roles
- Director
- João Rosas
- Writer
- João Rosas
- Producer
- Pedro Borges
- Director of photography
- Paulo Menezes
- Editor
- Luís Miguel Correia
Full credits
Cast
8- Francisco Melo
- Cécile Matignon
- Margarida Dias
- Federica Balbi
- Gemma Tria
- Ângela Ramos
- Francisca Alarcão
- Andreia Alves
Directing
5- João Rosas
- André Silva Santos
- Bruno Lourenço
- Luís Nunes
- André Silva Santos
Writing
1Production
2- Pedro Borges
- François d'Artemare
Camera
1- Paulo Menezes
Editing
1- Luís Miguel Correia
Sound
3- Olivier Blanc
- Elsa Ferreira
- Laure Arto
Art
1- Cláudia Lopes Costa
Companies
Midas Filmes · Les Films de l'Après-Midi
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