AUGUST WINDS - DVD

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• Release Year: 2015
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Shirley (Dandara de Morais) has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison (Geova Manoel dos Santos), who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time. During the month of August, when tropical storms pound the coastline, a researcher registering the sound of the trade winds emanating from the Intertropical Convergence Zone arrives in their village. The high tides and the growing winds mark the following days of the village and a surprise discovery takes Shirley and Jeison on a journey that confronts them with the duel between life and death, loss and memory, the wind and the sea.; ; “Beautiful, languid, and thoroughly melancholic.” — Bomb Magazine; ; “Atmospheric, meditative drama… strikingly lensed.” — Variety; ; “Gorgeously shot.” — The Hollywood Reporter;
• Cast: Dandara de Morais, Geová Manoel Dos Santos, Gabriel Mascaro, Rachel Ellis, Stefania Regis, Ricardo Pretti, Eduardo Serrano, Mauricio D'Orey
• Director: Gabriel Mascaro
• Runtime: 1:15
• Company: Kino Lorber, Lucinda Films, Desvia, Cinecolor Digital
• Media Format: Movie