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Portuguese director Ana Rocha de Sousa told the Lusa agency today that the awards won at the Venice Film Festival, Italy, with her first feature film mean that “it was worth fighting” to be behind the cameras.
“I never thought, I never thought. For me, it is indescribable. […] There are always times when we can be alone at home thinking ‘I could do so much, maybe I can’t’. The important thing is not to give up, I was about to give up, but not to give up, no matter what the adversities are ”, said the director to Lusa, from Venice.
“Listen”, the first feature film by the 41-year-old director and actress Ana Rocha de Sousa, won four awards at the Venice festival that ended today: The ‘Leão de Futuro’, first work, special award from the section jury ‘ Horizons’, the ‘Bisato d’Oro’ award for the best production and the ‘Sorriso Diverso Venezia’ award, these last two parallel awards of the event.
The film is a drama about a Portuguese family emigrated to the United Kingdom, to which social services remove their children on suspicion of abuse.
With a Portuguese-British co-production, the film was shot in nearby London with a Portuguese and English cast, led by Lúcia Moniz, Ruben García and Sophia Myles, and will hit Portuguese theaters in 2021.
Ana Rocha de Sousa entered the cinema through the door of representation, especially on television, having participated in fiction series such as “Riscos”, “A Raia dos Medos”, “Morangos com Açúcar” and “Jura”.
He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon and emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he studied film, going to the other side of the camera to make short films and, later, the long “Listen”.
When she says that she was about to leave the cinema, Ana Rocha de Sousa says that it happened before she did “Listen”, at a time when, in 2014, her career and resume were questioned within the sector, since she was on the jury list in contests. of the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual.
“I was trying to get my life back and at that moment some things went against me and I felt that they were deeply unfair. […] I understand, it is easier for people to judge us by our appearance than by who we are exactly, ”he explained.
Currently, Ana Rocha de Sousa is preparing a new feature film and considers that the awards in Venice are “a great incentive to be able to continue and not stop”.
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