The Seasons

The Seasons (2025)

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A journey through the real history and the tales of a region in southern Portugal and a portrait of the people who have lived there, weaving together accounts of rural workers and field notes of archaeologists, amateur footage and scientific drawings, legends, poems, and songs.

Date of release
2025-11-27
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Maureen Fazendeiro

Casting

Interesting facts

The Seasons is a 2025 docufiction film written and directed by Maureen Fazendeiro in her directorial feature debut. The film traces the passage of seasons while exploring both the documented and fictional histories of Portugal's Alentejo region and its successive inhabitants.

Production

The director and writer of the film Maureen Fazendeiro in an interview to the Variety said that She inspired by the legacy of archaeologists Georg and Vera Leisner—who "made the first inventory of megalithic monuments of the Iberian Peninsula, a work still very important today to understand the dawn of the European civilization". She retraced their journey through the Alentejo region.

In July 2022, the film project was selected in FIDLab 2022 projects, the co-production incubator of French festival FIDMarseille, and won Sublimages prize in the showcase, known for its focus on experimental documentary and fiction features.

In 2023, the project was presented in The Ventura co-production market, which is supported by Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts, run in the collaboration of the Concello de Tui and Play-Doc, Tui International Film Festival.

The film was supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe, which is designed to support the European film and audiovisual industries, under its Development Support funding line.

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