Films
Sovereign
Soberana
A film by Rafael Santos
Portugal
With guest - Rafael Santos (Screenwriter)
Miriam undergoes brain surgery by a grim doctor. She is awake. And reacts with her eyes to each intervention. The surgeon is precise with the cuts – but also insensitive to her suffering. He cuts two pieces of her brain and places each of them in a jar, both labelled: Romulus and Remus. After the delicate head operation, Miriam returns home and wakes up with a new personality. She starts increasingly terrorising the daily lives of her children, who received pieces of her brain as a gift from their father.
Miriam undergoes brain surgery by a grim doctor. She is awake. And reacts with her eyes to each intervention. The surgeon is precise with the cuts – but also insensitive to her suffering. He cuts two pieces of her brain and places each of them in a jar, both labelled: Romulus and Remus. After the delicate head operation, Miriam returns home and wakes up with a new personality. She starts increasingly terrorising the daily lives of her children, who received pieces of her brain as a gift from their father.
Credits
Screenwriter Rafael Santos
47 years old, former soldier, studied Communication Sciences at Lusófona University. He was an entrepreneur in the stationery business. He is now a contact manager at Millennium bcp. He is still a writer-screenwriter in his spare time. In 2016 he won the award for best feature film script with ‘’The House Under the Beach‘’; in 2020 he won the award for best TV series pilot script with ‘’Principle‘’; both wins at the Guiões Festival. He was also a semi-finalist twice in the FRAPA screenwriting competition in Brazil.
47 years old, former soldier, studied Communication Sciences at Lusófona University. He was an entrepreneur in the stationery business. He is now a contact manager at Millennium bcp. He is still a writer-screenwriter in his spare time. In 2016 he won the award for best feature film script with ‘’The House Under the Beach‘’; in 2020 he won the award for best TV series pilot script with ‘’Principle‘’; both wins at the Guiões Festival. He was also a semi-finalist twice in the FRAPA screenwriting competition in Brazil.
Rafael Santos
Screenwriter: Soberana