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Year of Production 2025

Luminous Life, A

English title: Luminous Life, A
Original title: Vida Luminosa, A
German title: Luminous Life, A *
Portugal, France, 2025

Director: Rosas, Joao
Production company: Midas Filmes, Les Films de L’Après-Midi
Age recommendation: 14 years and up
Length: 99 min.
Film genre: Feature film

Synopsis:
Springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he doesn’t celebrate.

Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and trapped in the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels unable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs that don’t allow him to leave his parents’ house, until the day he discovers that his mother is just as unsatisfied with her life as he is.

Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t fall. On the contrary, he moves forward. He gets a job in a stationery store, moves into a shared house, and life starts rolling again. And with it his dreams and his heart.

Up ahead, a girl and an island.

Festivals:
Indie Lisboa IFF 2025

World sales address/es:
Midas (PT)