Fábio Penela

A man returns to his hometown many years after a forced departure. He confronts his memories from childhood and from the past, he looks for the old faces and places, but seems that they’re not there anymore. The distance grows even more.

Three friends search for a magic lake that mysteriously appeared in South Tunisia. While some people think it could be a curse, others believe that this appearance exists because of local practices and occult rituals. People search for it, seeking the prophetic qualities it is said to possess. Between tales, strange visions and possession, we get through a region that is still searching for something more.

A strange dive into the night. Sami is returning home after six months in Italy. Between nightmares and dreams, he leaves behind an abandoned construction work, visions of ghosts and a mysterious sunset over the Mediterranean Sea.

The unbearable heat on the factory places us on the hottest summer days. A man who has been forced to leave everything behind tries to go to his daughter's birthday but receives threats from the court. In itself grows a wave of impatience, despair, violence. The violence not only of feelings but of things, materials, iron and metal, which deteriorate with time and the suffocating heat. In this industrial hell men merges with machines, they are near collapse.