North American Premiere
After a night partying, Rezmorah sobers up in the botanical gardens of Lisbon, pondering what the plants can teach us about queerness.
Rezmorah
Portugal/Brazil/Spain
2025
In Portuguese with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Producer
Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro, Mancha, Arrate Velasco, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Screenwriter
Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro, Rezmorah
Cinematography
Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro, Felipe Casanova
Editor
Deborah Viegas, Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro
Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro
Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro is a Brazilian film director and an alumnus of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián. He holds a Moving Image master’s degree from the Fine Arts School of Lisbon, and has collaborated with film festivals both as a producer and programmer. His films explore memories, images, and subjective or concrete places associated with urban spaces, welcoming their legends, tales, dreams, and ghosts of all kinds into his narratives.
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