Films

A small fishing boat is ship-wrecked. Four men are soaked to their bones for long hours without knowing if someone will come to their rescue. With Lisbon on the horizon, but no one in sight, and their lives in danger, they have no choice but to try to reach for the river’s margin by themselves (even knowing the chances of success are slim). For 24 hours, through sand and sea slime, dragging themselves in the water swimming, torn between despair and exhaustion. Will help arrive too late? This second feature by José Nascimento, after his first “Reporter X”, is a harrowing (and rare in Portuguese cinema) Survival Film based on an article published by O INDEPENDENTE in 1995, about an absurd shipwreck of a fishing craft boat in the middle of the Tejo river. It’s the first and only Portuguese film that shoots Tejo as a river of death.