DROWNING

‘Drowning’ is a drama and explores some ways to reassure people at such times, and also to instill confidence that life usually gets better and time always heals. This film shows a particularly emotional crisis of a young man, Oscar, who starts to enter a vicious cycle of bad decisions, after losing his grandmother. These bad decisions came from not understanding this new feeling. It’s an emotional battle inside him to remember his last memory with his grandmother.

Duration: 15:04m

Date: 2021

Role: Director and Writer

Directed and written by João Lopes

Produced by Rafaela Sousa 

Director of photography - Catarina Verdelho

Assistant director - Ricardo Pereira

Camera operator - Tomás Bandeira

Sound director - Diogo Chaves

Music - Leonardo Machado

Trailer - Leonor Ferreira

Editor - João Lopes 

Oscar - Diogo Fernandes

Mother - Silvia Almeida

Friend - Teresa Vilhena

Grandmother - Maria Lurdes

Co-production - Middlesex University and Cimbalino Filmes