AL BERTO

By Vicente ALVES DO O

CINEMIEN (GERMANY) - as DISTR

LGBT - Completed 2017

It’s the summer of ’75 in Sines, Portugal. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future – but right after the fall of Portugal’s dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for this love story.

Festivals
& Awards

Guadalajara FICG 2018
Miami IFF 2018
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • LGBT, Romance, Biography
    • Countries
    • PORTUGAL
    • Languages
    • PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 109 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Vicente ALVES DO O
    • Writer(s)
    • Vicente ALVES DO Ó
    • Producer(s)
    • Pandora CUNHAS DA TELLES, Pablo IRAOLA (UKBAR FILMES)
    • Synopsis
    • Portugal. 1975. A time of rough changes. A young gay artist trapped in a small seaside town run by communist winds. This is the story of Portugal’s post revolution, of the changing of mind-sets, of the rise of its greatest modern poet, Al Berto, thanks to the love affair with a young villager who showed him that though love does not conquer all, it lasts forever and is well worth writing about. Based on a true love story.