BLOOD OF MY BLOOD

Sangue do Meu Sangue (Portugal 2011)

Director: João Canijo

With: Rita Blanco, Anabela Moreira, Rafael Morais

Producer: Midas Filmes

140 min

Portuguese, English subtitles

ynopsis: A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week. Márcia (Rita Blanco) lives with her sister in a poor neighbourhood in the outskirts of Lisbon. Together they raised Marcia’s children: Cláudia (Anabela Moreira), who is studying to become a nurse and works as cashier in a supermarket, and Joca (Rafael Morais), who has become a delinquent. One day, the family life is shattered forever. Joca has tried to deceive a drug dealer and was caught. Cláudia tells her mother about her new boyfriend. When Márcia realizes who he is, she knows she has to do everything to end the relationship, haunted by unnamed tragedy…

San Sebastian Film Festival, Miami Film Festival