AUGUST WIND
by Gabriel Mascaro
Synopsis: Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her grandmother. There, she drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music, dreams of being a tattoo artist and feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time. The month of August is usually the time when tropical storms pound the coastline and a wind specialist comes to the village to research the intertropical zone of convergence. While high tides and growing winds rage, a surprising discovery takes Shirley and Jeison on a journey that confronts them with the duality between life and death, loss and memory, the wind and the sea.
Cast: Dandara De Morais, Antônio José Dos Santos, Maria Salvino Dos Santos.
2014 / Brazil / 77 min / Portuguese
“Atmospheric, meditative drama… Strikingly lensed”
— Variety
“Gorgeously shot”
— The Hollywood Reporter