Foi Bonita a Festa

Gold and Ashes





Salomé Lamas


2025 | Fiction Feature Film | 77’ | Digital | Color | Portugal




SINOPSE
Our first object of investigation and care must be life. We know the reason for this, for we are living beings in a situation where the conditions of life are under threat. What has no place in this ecological discourse is death. The fact that death is difficult to acknowledge is nothing new, but in our contemporary situation, death has taken on a new face.


Gold and Ashes goes beyond representation to become an intimate act of excavation, aiming to mediate — materially, politically, and metaphysically — the reappropriation of death as a power, and our sovereignty as mortal beings in both the private and social spheres. The film also speculates on the implications of representing trauma and the aesthetics of disappearance.









CRÉDITOS
REALIZAÇÃO: Salomé Lamas
ELENCO: Luísa Cruz, Margarida Vila-Novo
ARGUMENTO: Salomé Lamas, Isabel Petterman, Isabel Ramos
ASSISTENTE DE REALIZAÇÃO: Ângela Sequeira
CINEMATOGRAFÍA: Pedro J. Márquez
SOM: Miguel Cabral
MONTAGEM: Salomé Lamas, Francisco Moreira, João Martinho
PRODUTORES: Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguillar
COPODUTORA & EXECUTIVA: Catarina de Sousa
PRODUÇÃO: O Som e a Fúria (PT), Foi Bonita a Festa (PT)
APOIO FINANCEIRO ICA: - Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Creative Europe Media, RTP, FilmaPorto, La Caixa Foundation, Lisboa Film Commission APOIO
AO DESENVOLVIMENTO: FLAD, Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Civitella Ranieri, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Yaddo



OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
[2025 Estreia Mundial] DocLisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema [Portugal]
[2025] Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo [Brasil] [2025] Caminhos do Cinema Português [Portugal]

MUSEUMS & INSTITUTIONS
[2025] E-flux Screening Room [USA]