Ana by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro 

Ana
by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro 

1982 | Portugal | 115’ 

In a remote mountainous region of Portugal, there lives a family whose contacts with the outside world are rare. Its members are almost vestiges of another era. Their isolation will be disturbed by the arrival of a team of ethnologists, with whom they will try to maintain a distant, even hostile relationship. 


For the month of August, Lucky Star - Cineclube de Braga has scheduled weekly screenings of a retrospective dedicated to Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis. Showing six films, this is a rare opportunity to get to know the three feature films and the medium-length film that make up the work and the most important part of the legacy of the authors from Trás-os-Montes. The influence of the pair of directors is immeasurable on cinema in Portugal and the rest of the world, starting with the repercussions of viewing their films and continuing through their work as teachers of various directors in our country. Cordeiro and Reis gave references and a past to those who didn't have one, rescuing popular culture and giving it a voice and a platform.