CAMPO

By Tiago HESPANHA

TERRATREME FILMES - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Cinéma du Réel 2019
IndieLisboa 2019
Best Director in a Portuguese Feature Film Award
HotDocs 2019
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • PORTUGAL
    • Languages
    • PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Tiago HESPANHA
    • Writer(s)
    • Cláudia VAREJÃO, Rui XAVIER, Luisa HOMEM
    • Producer(s)
    • João MATOS (TERRATREME)
    • Synopsis
    • The word 'campo' (field) comes from the Latin ‘capere’ (to capture). “Campo de Marte” (The Field of Mars) was in the ancient times Rome’s training arena for war. At the outskirts of Lisbon, “Campo” hosts today Europe’s largest military base. In this place military troops train fictional missions, astronomy aficionados observe the stars and a boy plays the piano for the wild deers lurking in the dark. In here, I saw life manifesting itself with its contradictory and mysterious dimensions. CAMPO reflects on the nature of the mundane and the transcendental, as they reveal themselves inextricably intertwined.