Festival of the Boys
Synopsis
For a few years now, Aveleda, small village in the north-east of Portugal, is dying.Nevertheless, at the time of the winter solstice, the single young boys who live and work in the nearby city of Bragança, but also in Porto, Lisbon and abroad, come back. They come to celebrate the village and its ancestors, by immortalizing an initiation rite at man's age: to Festa dos Rapazes.
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Films de l'Après-Midi
- Foreign production company : Filmes do Tejo
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : François D'Artemare
- Screenwriters : Pierre Primetens, Irene Dos Santos
- Director of Photography : Benjamin Serero
- Editors : Pierre Primetens, Catherine Boutaud
- Sound Recordist : Olivier Blanc
- Foreign producer : Maria João Mayer
- Production manager : Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira
- Sound Editor : Alexandre Hecker
- Sound Mixer : Christophe Vingtrinier
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Portrait, Fairy tale
- Themes : Adolescence, Emigration, Ethnography, Monde rural, Traditions
- Production language : Portuguese
- Coproducer countries : France, Portugal
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Portugal)
- Production year : 2011
- Runtime : 57 min
- Visa number : 124.221
- Visa issue date : 14/12/2010
- Production formats : HDV
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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