Nothing Ever Happened
Gonçalo Galvão Teles
A neighborhood in the Lisbon suburbs. Rows of buildings, faint lights, no one can sleep. Three teens - Pedro, Maria and Paulo - stand atop a viaduct. It is a windy night, cars speed by underneath. They walk to the ledge. Months before, António closes the door to his house in the country for the last time. He’s moving to Lisbon, sacrificing for his family. His son Jorge is numbed by the crisis, Lena, Jorge’s wife, is having an affair with her boss, and his grandson Pedro is barely a stranger to him. Little by little, António and Pedro become closer, while Lena and Jorge grow apart. But the tragic pact that unites Pedro, Maria and Paulo makes them unafraid to fall to their deaths, leaving the family in a desperate trail of decay and regret, where no one can pretend that nothing ever happened.
drama / 124’ / 2022
In co-production with Grafo Audiovisual (Brazil) and Entre Chien et Loup (Belgium).
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Sophia Awards | 11 Nominations
Best Film;
Best Director;
Best Original Screenplay;
Best Lead Actor (Filipe Duarte);
Best Lead Actor (Rui Morrison);
Best Leading Actress (Ana Moreira);
Best Supporting Actor (Bernardo Lobo Faria);
Best Supporting Actress (Beatriz Batarda);
Best Assembly;
Best Original Soundtrack;
Best Art Direction. -
CinEuphoria Awards - National Competition
Best Actor Award (Filipe Duarte)
Best Supporting Actor Award (Bernardo Lobo Faria)
“Top of the Year” Award
Punta del Este Film Festival
Best Actor Award (Filipe Duarte)
Best Actress Award (Ana Moreira) -
CINEQUEST – Official Competition | 2022
SÃO PAULO EXHIBITION – International Perspective | 2022
PATHS OF PORTUGUESE CINEMA – Caminhos Selection | 2022
25th Punta del Este International Festival – Iberoamerican Fiction Competition | 2023
Chicago Latino Film Festival | 2023
PRODUCTION CREDITS
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PRODUCTION CREDITS 〰️
DIRECTION
PRODUCTION
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION
João Fonseca
Gonçalo Galvão Teles
Luís Galvão Teles
SCRIPT
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Tiago R. Santos
Luís Filipe Rocha
EDITING
COLOUR GRADING
PHOTOGRAPHY
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Artur Pinheiro
João Ribeiro
Filipe Lacerda
Paulo Américo
COSTUME DESIGN
SOUND
SOUND MIXING
SOUND EDITING
ORIGINAL SCORE
CASTING
Patrícia Vasconcelos
Hugo Leitão
Simon Jamart
Ingrid Simon
Mia Lourenço
Vasco Pedroso
Raquel Morte, Antonio Gonçalves Junior
COPRODUCTION
ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION
Sébastien Delloye
Filipe Duarte, Ana Moreira, Rui Morisson, Bernardo Lobo Faria, Alba Baptista e Miguel Amorim
WITH
Gonçalo Galvão Teles
Gonçalo Galvão Teles has a life dedicated to cinema and its teaching: he is a screenwriter, director, producer; a professor at Lusófona University; and director of the International Masters in fiction filmmaking KINO EYES - The European Movie Masters.
After graduating with a Masters in Screenwriting at the University of Southern California, Gonçalo’s first produced script, the animated short The Suspect (2000), won the Cartoon D’Or for Best European Animation.
Since then, Gonçalo has developed a career writing tv-movies and feature films as well as directing short and feature films. He co-directed the feature Ice (2016); and World War I feature film and mini-series Hero On The Front (2018), winner of 5 Sophia Awards from the Portuguese Film Academy.
Nothing Ever Happened is Gonçalo’s solo directorial debut.