Entre Muros – In Between Walls

WHEN OUR LIVES ARE FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS, YEARNING FOR HOME BECOMES PRESENT....
this story is about two Ukranians: Sergey and Eduard, who are illegal, immigrants in Portugal. They work as construction workers in the suburbs of Lisbon. The two of them share a converted garage with three other illegal Ukranian immigrants. Their life in the garage is very basic and dull, but their inner life is full of contradictory feelings and nostalgia. The film describes their final months in voluntary exile, when yearning for home becomes more acute while the question of prolonging their stay arises. Finally they leave Portugal and the film follows their first days in their own country. What kind of dreams can give them the strengh to live and survive in these inhuman conditions in a faraway land?

João Ribeiro

joão ribeiro:

is a cinematographer who works mainly in documentary, but he also has expirience in feature length fiction film. since 1993, he has done photography in more than forty films, including numerous co-productions between Portubal, France, Germany, Guiné, Sweden, United States. His name is linked to a new generation of directors who developed portuguese documentary film in the beginning of the 90´s, such as Catarina Alves Costa, Catarina Mourão, Sérgio Tréfaut. He co-directed and was cinematographer of his first documentary, "Entre Muros", selected for several festivals (Cinéma du Réel, Festival Dei Popoli, among other´s). In 2003 he received the Best Photography award in DocLisboa for the film "Restless", by Catarina Mourão, in 2007 he received two more awards of Best Photography (VIII European Cinema Festival in Lecce, Italy, Cineport in João Pessoa, Brazil) for the feature "Transe", by Teresa Villaverde.