Tempests - Essay on a Rehearsal (2015)

A documentary essay about a text that penetrates lives and lives that penetrate a text. In September 2015 teatro GRIOT - a theatre company based in Lisbon, whose actors are mostly Afro-descendants - started to rehearse Shakespeare's "The Tempest" with acclaimed director Bruno Bravo in a little coastal village. Starting with the first rehearsals the film explores Shakespeare's text and the actors' biographies, between the play and the landscape and brings up topics such as memories, home, emigration and colonialism. A complex mosaic of multiple voices.

Cast (6)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Zia Soares

Bruno Bravo

Margarida Bento

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Ana Rosa Mendes

Daniel Martinho

Giovanni Lourenço

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