SYNOPSIS
Beatriz and Henrique married on the day she turned 21. Henrique, a naval officer, spent many seasons at sea. On land, Beatriz, who learned everything from the verticality of plants, took care of the roots of their 6 children. The eldest son, Jacinto, is my father and dreamed of becoming a bird one day. One day, suddenly, Beatriz died. My mother didn't die suddenly, but she died when I was 17. On that day, my father and I met in the loss of his mother and our relationship ceased to be just that of father and daughter.

ABOUT
Catarina Vasconcelos was born in Lisbon in 1986. She holds a B.A. from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and completed a post-graduate course in Visual Anthropology at the ISCTE-IUL. She received a Master's degree from the Royal College of Art, in London, where her final project was the short film METAPHOR, OR SADNESS INSIDE OUT (2014). The film premiered in the Cinéma du Réel festival, where it received the award for best short film. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS premiered in the new Encounters section at the 70th Berlinale, in February 2020, where it received the FIPRESCI award of the International Federation of Film Critics. Since then, the film has been shown in various festivals, such as New Directors/New Films or San Sebastian-Donostia International Film Festival where it was awarded best film in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section.