Main Programme  

 A cup of coffee, a cigarette. A coin, another cup of coffee. Patients roam the halls. They walk alone. Waiting. Another smoke – a burning cigarette. Therapies that appeal to the senses. Routines that pull them back to reality. It is life repeating itself in a psychiatric hospital – lucidity and madness living together. An actor from the outside dives into this schizophrenic world, and starts to build a theatre performance with the patients from the hospital. Soon we see him galloping through the grounds as he rehearses the scene with the hallucinated horse. The longer we follow him and the delightful residents of the hospital, the more we realise: the transition is blurred – and that is the testimony to the outstanding narrative quality of this extraordinary film.

Awards

Caminhos do Cinema Português Festival – Grand Festival Award (2014)
Caminhos do Cinema Português Festival – Audience Award (2014)
Caminhos do Cinema Português Festival – Best Director Award (2014)
International Paris Festival Siges de Nuit – Signes Award (2014)

Jorge Pelicano

Jorge Pelicano is a Portuguese documentary filmmaker. Ainda há pastores? was his first feature film, which won more than fourteen national and international awards. He is currently involved in several documentary projects in the Portuguese production company, Até ao Fim do Mundo.

Selected Filmography

Stand, Listen, Look / Páre, escute, olhe (2009)
Ainda há pastores? (2006)