Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.

EMPTY HANDS

A surreal dark comedy about a depressed undertaker who asks his dead clients for life advice.

  • Caetano hasn’t slept in years. More precisely, 5 years. Ever since his wife died in Portugal’s most famous death-by-selfie. Terminally depressed, he went to work in his father’s funeral home, where he chats with the dead. Every night he thinks of suicide, but is too afraid of pain. Fausto, a deceased professor, tells him about an obscure euthanasia self-help group. Could this be the solution?

  • Production
    Darya Films | Kinora Filmes

    Funding
    ICA — Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual (Portugal) | Servilusa


  • Caetano Dinarte Branco

    Fausto António Durães

    Idalino José Manuel Mendes

    Olivia Rita Reve

  • Writer & Director Paolo Marinou-Blanco

    Director of Photography Miguel Sales Lopes

    Editing Kathryn J. Schubert

    Casting Patrícia Vasconcelos

    Sound Director Bruno Garcez

    Production Designer João Torres

    Costume Design Maura Carneiro

    Make Up & Hair Catarina Santiago

    Sound Designer & Mixer Hugo Leitão

    Line Producer Cristiana Cruz Forte

    Producers Paolo Marinou-Blanco | Miguel Sales Lopes

  • Darya Films | Kinora Filmes

  • Curtas Vila do Conde

    San Francisco International Film Festival

    Izmir International Film Festival

    Provincetown International Film Festival

    Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival Best Film

    Badajoz International Film Festival Young Jury Award

    Shortcutz Ovar Audience Award

    Shortcutz Aveiro Audience Award

    Shortcutz Lisboa

    FESTin International Film Festival Best Short Film

    Art Film Festival Best National Film & Director


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