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Rita Quelhas

A Minha Juventude

Fiction | 0 | couleur | 26:35 | Portugal | 2017

In a teenage room, in some other time, somewhere in the 60`s in Portugal, is a young 16 year old girl that lives and breaths in there, accompanied by a 1 year old baby that crawls through the carpeted floor - her son. Only in this room can the young girl exist and dream, distant from the life she hears coming from the building`s backyard while she tries to escape from the presence of the baby, the reason of her confinement.

RITA QUELHAS Born in 1994 in Lisbon, Portugal. Graduated in Directing by Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon Theatre and Film School) in 2015. She directed two short films: “Uivo”/“Howl” (DocLisboa `14, Panorama 2015, Montanha Pico Festival) and "A Minha Juventude"/ “My Youth” (IndieLisboa 2016, FILMADRID 2017 - Best Film Award from Young Jury, FEST - Honourable Mention National Prize). Quelhas interest in cinema manifests itself through essay writing as well. In 2017, her three-part essay “The Gaps and Detours in Madame De...” was published in the online Canadian magazine Offscreen. Besides directing her own films, she focuses in working with other directors in the editing department, such as Salomé Lamas or Ana Pérez-Quiroga and, in the direction department, with Marco Martins. Currently, Quelhas also works for the Portuguese theatre company Arena Ensemble, as assistant director and video assistant to Beatriz Batarda and Marco Martins.