Director: Inês Oliveira

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Biography: Inês Oliveira studied at the Superior School of Theatre and Cinema, in Lisbon, until 2000. With one of the most multifaceted curriculums of the young Portuguese film generation, not only in terms of education – such like in edition, photography, sound and screenplay – but also through the experience this director has also acquired. Nome e o N.I.M is one of Inês Oliveira’s most appreciated works after being widely awarded as a short film. Recently, Inês Oliveira directed a documentary Comer o Coração de Rui Chafes e Vera Mantero, that focused on the work of the pair which is a relation of exception in the Portuguese contemporary art.

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Bobô

Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariama forces them to confront their own private ghosts.
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