João stars in a biopic about Liberada, a gender-nonconforming figure persecuted by the Inquisition. After the director is mysteriously paralyzed, João faces haunting dreams and struggles to honor Liberada’s story.
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Year: 2025
Country: Portugal
Language: portuguese
Subtitles: english
With: June João, André Tecedeiro, Jenny Larrue, Alice Azevedo, Caio Amado, Eloísa d'Ascensão e Tiago Aires Lêdo
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Paula Tomás Marques
Portugal
Paula Tomás Marques is a Portuguese filmmaker from Porto. Having completed a postgraduate degree in Filmmaking at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (San Sebastián, Spain), she previously did a postgraduate degree in Sociology at ISCTE (Lisbon), and was originally trained in Directing and Cinematography at Lisbon’s ESTC. In her films, she explores the difficulties her characters face when breaking or questioning expectations of gender and sexuality.