Life Railways: Restless Wind

Life Railways: Restless Wind

2023 · 26 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

The young German journalist Samuel comes to meet Alma Bentes, a renowned Portuguese writer. Over small trips, Samuel records, trilling, fragments immortalised in the tiles of the railway stations. The train stops at life stations, and the restless wind carries time away.

Directed by Tomás Baltazar

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