OPENING SESSION

27.09.24

9.30pm
Casa de Cultura Jaime Lobo e Silva – Auditorium

MY GRANDFATHER’S DEMONS

by Nuno Beato

Rosa is a successful professional. Between work and regular visits to the gym, she has little time left for social life, except for her cat.

The sudden death of the grandfather who raised her, and the feeling of not having returned that love, will bring her back to the home where she was raised.

Thanks to a series of letters and clues, she discovers that her grandfather left her an important task that will help her make peace with herself. Rosa finds the clay statuettes that her grandfather Marcelino made, which represent a strange and grotesque vision of himself and the people around him: the clay demons.

Rosa’s childhood memories and the after shocks of Marcelino’s life assail the young woman in strange dreams in which the characters take on the appearance of these clay demons, such as the six-legged bull representing her grandfather. Marcelino was not appreciated in the village of Vale de Sarronco, which gives Rosa a cold reception.