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\n\tThe Locarno Film Festival, at its 78th edition this year, is inviting audiences to explore The Seasons<\/em> (As Esta\u00e7\u00f5es<\/em>).<\/p>\n \n\tThe movie is the solo directorial feature debut from Maureen Fazendeiro (medium-length film Les Habitants<\/em>, short Black Sun<\/em>), a French filmmaker and casting director living in Lisbon who is known as a long-time collaborator of Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes, with whom she co-directed The Tsugua Diaries<\/em> and co-wrote Grand Tour<\/em>. The film will world premiere in the Swiss festival\u2019s main competition lineup on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n \n\tThe film is based on accounts and tales collected during its preparation and the personal \n\t\u201dWeaving together accounts of rural workers and field notes of a couple of archaeologists, amateur footage and scientific drawings, legends, poems, and songs,\u00a0As Esta\u00e7\u00f5es<\/em>\u00a0is a journey through the real history and the tales of a region in southern Portugal, Alentejo, and a portrait of the people who have lived there,\u201d notes a synopsis on the festival website.<\/p>\n \n\tFazendeiro herself, in a director\u2019s statement, describes the movie as \u201can archaeological film,\u201d explaining: \u201cIt excavates the landscape, the voices, and gestures of the people of Alentejo to uncover the vestiges of a shared history, one of wars and revolutions, fear and resistance, permanence and metamorphosis.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\u2018The Seasons\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Marianne Andrea Borowiec<\/p>\n \n\tWritten and directed by Fazendeiro, The Seasons features cinematography from Robin Fresson and Marta Sim\u00f5es. As cast members, Sim\u00e3o Ramalho, Cl\u00e1udio da Silva, Ana Potra, Manuel Leit\u00e3o, and Ant\u00f3nio Sozinho are listed, along with voice cast members Gerti Drassl, Michaela Kaspar, Raphael von Bargen, Toni Slama, Ant\u00f3nio Abel, and Sim\u00e3o Romeu.<\/p>\n \n\tInternational sales on the co-production between Portugal, France, Spain, and Austria, are being handled by Square Eyes.<\/p>\n \n\tTHR<\/em> can unveil a trailer for The Seasons<\/em>, which features, among other things, archeologists, rocks, flowers, the moon, lots of goats, and such lines as \u201cI heard a story\u201d and \u201cOnce upon a time.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWatch the full trailer below and decide for yourself if you want to hear a story.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Locarno Film Festival, at its 78th edition this year, is inviting audiences to explore The Seasons (As Esta\u00e7\u00f5es). The movie is the solo directorial feature debut from Maureen Fazendeiro (medium-length film Les Habitants, short Black Sun), a French filmmaker and casting director living in Lisbon who is known as a long-time collaborator of Portuguese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[7500,1171,2206,2043,3271,5844],"class_list":{"0":"post-13822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-alentejo","9":"tag-film","10":"tag-locarno","11":"tag-portugal","12":"tag-seasons","13":"tag-trailer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
archives and fieldnotes of German archaeologists Georg and Vera Leisner, who studied megalithic\u00a0sites in\u00a0Iberia.<\/p>\n