Film
Palaces of Pity
Portugal- Director
- Gabriel Abrantes
- Year
- 2011
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past - one consumed by fear and desire - the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression, juxtaposing their budding identities to a trial condemning two Moorish homosexuals to burn at the stake.
Top cast
Directed by
Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
Written by
Daniel Schmidt, Gabriel Abrantes
Produced by
Natxo Checa, Marta Furtado, Gabriel Abrantes, Zé dos Bois
