On Christmas Eve, two women engage in dialogue in a barge as it glides over the waters of a dark, icy pond. An unexpected event will leave its mark at the end of this crossing.
The short film The Ferry (A Barca) is an adaptation of the short story "Natal na Barca" (Christmas on the ferry, 1958), by Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles, who received the Camões Prize (the largest literary prize for Portuguese-speaking authors) in 2005.
This tale is present in her book of short stories entitled Before the Green Ball (Antes do Baile Verde) (1970).
Sofía works as a cleaner for a TEA in a school. Iván works as a skating teacher, teaching during extracurricular hours. Sofía and Iván know each other but they've never spoken to each other. She secretly observes his class. He knows. Sofía always leaves before Iván finishes his class But today it...
When Alex gets pregnant and subsequently has an abortion, the already rickety foundation of her relationship with her boyfriend, Darby, crumbles. Alex and Darby must confront the realities of what it means to love, to be a parent, and to mature as a person.
On a hill farm somewhere in the north of England, things are not what they used to be. Frank used to own land but since the changes he makes his living fixing dry stone walls. His marriage has failed but Frank refuses to let go. He watches his little family from a vantage point on the hills and a...
