Trailer for Hugo Vieira da Silva’s BODY RICE

The isolation of the individual in the modern world seems to be the big subject in Portuguese cinema right now. The first feature film from director Hugo Vieira da Silva tell us the story of Katrin a troubled German girl who comes to Portugal to take part in a social re-education project but gets lost in the emptiness of the landscape.

The official site for this drama is now online. In it you can find a still gallery and a streaming trailer. Written and directed by Hugo Vieira da Silva, the movie stars Sylta Fee Wegmann as Katrin, Alice Dwyer as Julia, André Hennicke as Dieter, Luís Guerra as Pedro, Julika Jenkins as Anja and Pedro Hestnes as Joaquim.

Here’s a plot synopsis provided by the production company: “Since 1980 German institutions have been sending teenagers to the south of Portugal integrated in several experimental projects of social re-education. Katrin comes to Alentejo within this context. She does not establish a relationship with her environment, a situation heightened by the harshness of the landscape and the void of a socially desertified region. Katrin, Julia and Pedro form an enclave in a no-man’s land – a physical and mental desert....”

Body Rice trailer (streaming quicktime)
Body Rice stills (3 pictures)
Body Rice official website (English, French and Portuguese)