Films

A message of praise to the president ends an assembly of the União Nacional, a party created by Salazar which was in office throughout the Estado Novo dictatorship, and a long, apologetic applause begins. Among the crowd, members of the secret police search the audience for any expression of dissent. Based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's testimony of a Communist Party committee during Stalinism, this new film by Guilherme Daniel, a recurrent MOTELX winner, premieres him in the International Shorts section.