TV show aired between 2020 and 2021

The apparition of a bloodstain reaffirms the relentless cycle of life, filmed in all its fragility and complexity.

Portugal, the 1970s. As the end of an era of repression approaches, a bourgeois family still in its bubble of power spends its vacation in a country house. The teenage cousins spend their days in indolence, interrupted by fits of hysteria. It will only take an introduction of an outside element – in the shape of a young man – for violence to erupt. Director David Pinheiro Vicente states that the idea of the film came from witnessing family gatherings and trying to guess the secrets, fantasies and unspoken things beyond the conversations. Part Pasolinian and sexy hide-and-seek, part political allegory (the young intruder embodies the post-Portuguese-dictatorship freedom to come), The Hunters is another solid, delightful addition to Vicente’s noteworthy work, which addresses the tension between body and spirit.

本片入围今年柏林电影节短片竞赛单元，提名泰迪熊奖。夏日来临，六名年轻朋友们驱车前往河畔的森林。他们在路上讲述着一个男人和作为宠物却想吃掉他的蛇的故事。男孩从树上坠下来受了伤，女孩跟着他；一条蛇，它缠绕在一名男孩的大腿上，女孩则用手抱住它；两个男孩吃着一个桃子，脱掉沾满泥土的袜子开始亲吻……在森林温热潮湿的气候里，随着天色渐渐暗淡，欲望在他们之间一点点蔓延。（小易甫字幕组）