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Filmed in one of the remaining social housing towers of Aleixo (Porto, Portugal), “Bicicleta” tells the story of a family living under economic pressure.

Everything came up with this defiant idea: what if a director followed the first person to come through the door of his house? Luís Vieira Campos did this and found Geni, a strong woman who dreamt of opening her own store at Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, a mythical place of Porto. Between advances and retreats, between the increasing opening of the director and his character, the film reveals the unique portrait of a woman, a neighbourhood - Cedofeita - and the improbable relationships we establish when we least expect it. Luís Vieira Campos proves, with Geni, that cinema is also the "neighbourhood" and its people.

A widow, a corpse, an undertaker, a young woman in a family way. Life and death meet in a funeral procession down a stairwell.