After years in a juvenile detention center, Spira returns to his neighborhood, but gentrification and demolition excavators are taking hold. His friends Giovani and Chandi are happy to see him again, unlike gang boss Kikas, whose car Spira burned in a fit of aimless rage, before being sent to prison. As the bulldozers begin to tear down the neighborhood, everyone tries to hold on to their dreams. Basil Da Cunha lived in Reboleira, a slum in Lisbon, himself. O FIM DO MUNDO is his third movie shot in Reboleira with actors casted from the streets. "Da Cunha and his Dop Rui Xavier create alluring images amid the pitiful slums of this squalid part of Portugal’s capital city where the glittering nightscapes seem magical in contrast with the poverty." (filmuforia.com)
After years in a juvenile detention center, Spira returns to his neighborhood, but gentrification and demolition excavators are taking hold.
After years in a juvenile detention center, Spira returns to his neighborhood, but gentrification and demolition excavators are taking hold.
His friends Giovani and Chandi are happy to see him again, unlike gang boss Kikas, whose car Spira burned in a fit of aimless rage, before being sent to prison. As the bulldozers begin to tear down the neighborhood, everyone tries to hold on to their dreams.
Basil Da Cunha lived in Reboleira, a slum in Lisbon, himself. O FIM DO MUNDO is his third movie shot in Reboleira with actors casted from the streets.
"Da Cunha and his Dop Rui Xavier create alluring images amid the pitiful slums of this squalid part of Portugal’s capital city where the glittering nightscapes seem magical in contrast with the poverty." (filmuforia.com)