🎤 After the movie there will be a Q&A with the director Catarina Mourão.  

🇵🇹 Screening is organised together with the Portuguese Language Centre at Tallinn University. Screening is free of charge for everyone.

In the mid 1950’s my grandfather was committed to a psychiatric hospital, my uncle became a political prisoner, and my mother aged 11 was sent to a boarding school. Since then she hardly saw her father and brother. Today my aunt owns the family house where some of the secrets might be kept, but my mother hasn’t gone back since my grandfather died in 1970. In this film I want to unravel the secrets and mysteries of my Portuguese family during dictatorship. The cloud of Salazar’s regime is dissipating, 38 years after the Revolution of 1974. Families can now make sense of their past, reinterpret old memories and discover new truths.

The movie is preceded by a short movie "The Hissing of Summer Sands" / 2019 / Portugal / Catarina Mourão /15 minutes.  

“The whistle man” was a typical character of the portuguese sea-side during the Fascist Portugal. His story has so many versions that he has become a myth: A poor crazy man who lost his baby girl, a professional homeless who lived from the charity of rich families, a pedofile or a summer father Christmas. His whistle announced his arrival and attracted boys and girls or made them run away. Last year I found 30 seconds of footage of this man which until then was just a memory. Is he more real now?