Synopsis
Five women run an old hotel, trying to save it from it’s unyielding decay. They have a long-lasting, maybe irreparable, conflict: they are mothers incapable of loving their daughters, and they, at the same time, can’t become mothers. When Salomé arrives at the hotel, old wounds reopen. Trapped in that feeling and in the search of an escape, her mother, Piedade, makes a drastic decision.
Filmmaker
João Canijo
Before debuting with Three Less Me he worked as an assistant director for filmmakers such as Wim Wenders and Werner Schroeter. His cinema, naturalist and always dynamic and satirical, has achieved international recognition thanks to works such as Blood of My Blood (D’A 2012), FIPRESCI award in San Sebastián and Portuguese representative at the Oscars, or the diptych Living Bad y Bad Living, which received the Special Jury Prize in Berlin.
Filmography: Bad Living (2023, D'A 2024), Living Bad (2023, D'A 2024), Fojos (2020), Diário das Beiras (2017), Fátima (2017), O Dia do Meu Casamento (short film, 2016), Portugal - Um Dia de Cada Vez (2015), É o Amor (2013), Obrigação (2012), Raul Brandão Era Um Grande Escritor... (short film, 2012), Blood of My Blood (2011, D'A 2012), The Actor's Work (2011), Lusitanian Illusion (2010), Misbegotten (2007), Mãe Há Só Uma (short film, 2006), In the Darkness of the Night (2004), Get a Life (2000), Black Shoes (1998), Lovely Child (1989), Three Less Me (1988), A Meio Amor (short film, 1984)
Awards and festivals
Silver Bear Jury Prize
INDIELISBOA FILM FESTIVAL
Grand Prize for Best Portuguese Film
Special Mention of the Universities Award
LAS PALMAS FILM FESTIVAL
Golden Lady Harimaguada for Best Film
Audience Award
Poster
