October 2019, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). Three months before Brexit. Hundreds of Portuguese migrant workers pour into town, seeking work at the local turkey factories. Once a favourite holiday destination for the English working class, Great Yarmouth is now an echo of its former glory, a place with one of the highest unemployment rates in the UK. The factories take advantage of the numerous decaying hotels on the beach front to house the seasonal workers coming in from Portugal and Eastern Europe. They do the jobs no one wants. Tânia (also known as The Mother of the Portuguese), is a former worker in these poultry plants and is now married to an English hotel owner. She is the perfect facilitator for the Portuguese workers, but dreams of becoming a British citizen and leaving this dirty business behind by transforming her husband’s derelict hotels into refurbished senior citizens homes. But the arrival of her latest group of immigrants for the Christmas season unleashes a series of events that disrupts her volatile existence.
Featuring: Beatriz Batarda, Kris Hitchen, Robert Elliot, Romeu Runa, Nuno Lopes, Rita Cabaço, Hugo Bentes e a população de Great Yarmouth
Directed by: Marco Martins
Written by: Ricardo Adolfo, Marco Martins
Director of Photography: João Ribeiro AIP
Sound: Miguel Martins, Rafael Cardoso
Production Design: Wayne dos Santos
Wardrobe: Isabel Carmona
Make-up and Hair: Maria Almeida Nani
Casting (UK): Jessie Frost
Casting (Portugal): José Pires
Editing: Karen Harley, Mariana Gaivão, Marco Martins
Sound Mix: Daniel Sobrino
Grading: Isabelle Julien
Original Soundtrack: Jim Williams
Executive Producer: Emilie Joffroy, Ian Hutchinson, Saskia Thomas
Producers: Filipa Reis, Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl
Co-producer: François D’Artemare, Yohann Cornu
Produced by: Uma Pedra no Sapato
Co-produced by: Les Films de l’Aprés-Midi, Elation Pictures, Damned Films
International Sales & Aggregation: LevelK
Distribution (Portugal): NOS Audiovisuais
Funded by: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Fundação GDA, RTP, CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, Aide Aux Cinémas du Monde, Institut Français, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine - Département de La Charente-Maritime, BFI’s Film Fund, Eurimages - Council of Europe, Creative Europe MEDIA
Festivals and Awards
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián
Sección Oficial (ES 09.2022)
International Film Festival of India – IFFI
Cinema of the World (IN 11.2022)
Cineuropa Compostela
(ES 10.2022)
Festival Univerciné Britannique
(FR 12.2022)
MUSOC - Muestra de Cine Social y Derechos Humanos
(ES 01.2023)
Glasgow Film Festival
Official Selection (GB 03.2023)
Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay
Competencia de Largometrajes Internacionales (UY 04.2023)
MOOOV
Competition (BE 04-05.2023)
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Iberoamerican Fiction Competition (MX 06.2023)
Mejor Guion de Largometraje Iberoamericano de Ficción
Mejor Actriz en un Largometraje Iberoamericano de Ficción
Globos de Ouro
(PT 10.2023)
Melhor Filme - nomeado
Melhor Actriz (Beatriz Batarda)
Caminhos do Cinema Português
Selecção Caminhos (PT 11.2023)
Melhor Interpretação Principal - Beatriz Batarda
Melhor Interpretação Secundária - Romeu Runa
Prémios AIP 2024
(PT 03.2024)
Melhor Direção de Fotografia em Longa-Metragem - Direção de Fotografia de João Ribeiro
Prémios Sophia 2024
PT (05.2024)
Best Leading Actress - Beatriz Batarda
Best Supporting Actor - Romeu Runa
Best Cinematography - João Ribeiro
Best Sound - Miguel Martins and Rafael Cardoso
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