VITALINA VARELA [Blu-ray] co-written with João Dumans

co-written with João Dumans

Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook

Caniba reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man

The film features stunning animation and reflections by literary luminaries including Margaret Atwood

VITALINA VARELA [Blu-ray] co-written with João DumansA film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costas Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has travelled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of