António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro's TRÁS-OS-MONTES (1976) - L.A. premiere of new restoration!
Greatly admired by Jean Rouch and Pedro Costa, we present a beautiful restoration of Reis and Cordeiro's best-known film, a landmark in docufiction filmmaking.
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Jun 09, 2026, 7:00 PM
Now Instant Image Hall, 939 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
Trás-os-Montes
a film by António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro
1976, Portugal, 111m, DCP
L.A. premiere of a brand-new 2K restoration
doors: 6:30
film: 7:00
“[The film that] reconciled me with my country and my language.” -Pedro Costa
“A film of long shadows and smoke in twilight, Trás-os-Montes is an intensive labor of recollection, an epic of a land and a way of life on the edge of oblivion, and a major turning point in the history of Portuguese cinema. In 1974, filmmakers António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro traveled ten thousand kilometers across the isolated, near-mythical region in the Northeast of Portugal known as Trás-os-Montes. They recruited a cast of inhabitants old and young from local villages to materialize their histories, legends, dreams, and nightmares for the camera. The philosophy of the peasants, their rebellion, their everyday existence far from the laws of church and state, and their closeness to ancient things—these encounters informed the dialectical approach of the film, where fiction and reality, past and future swell in an immediate present. The result is a work of deep and threatened lyricism. In voiceover, Reis and Cordeiro adapt passages from Kafka and the Chinese poet Po Chü-i, translated to the guttural subdialect of the Northeast. As an act of solidarity with a people facing extinction, Trás-os-Montes echoes through time.” -Cinema Guild
In Portuguese with English subtitles. A Cinema Guild release.