Dir Zézé GamboaProd co Gamboa & GamboaThe Portuguese-language feature drama from the Angolan director of The Hero, which won the world cinema grand jury prize at Sundance in 2005, is based on the true story of four fishermen who survived 60 days adrift at sea in their boat, the Aleluia. The film is about the unique way in which the men — from Cape Verde, the archipelago off the coast of Western Africa — survive the ordeal.“The narrative explores the singular way the four men avoid succumbing to an apparently inevitable fate,” director Zézé Gamboa says. “Accepting their differences, weaknesses and errors, each man recognises himself as individually essential to the survival of the four.”More than an adventure saga and a story of man against the elements, Aleluia will also be a riposte to the cult of the individual. “What moves me to make this film is the fragility of human life and experience, and our utter inability to control our environment or situations,” Gamboa says. “When our impotence is extreme, all that is best and worst in human behaviour comes to the fore.”Shooting is expected to start on the $2.7m (€2m) project in Cape Verde in October 2015, with… Read full this story
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