Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

EFA Short Matters!

The Waves

As Ondas

Portugal
2012 — 22' / Color

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Synopsis

Beautiful seascapes swept before my eyes. Tied up in these images was my youth, my paradise lost. The vast sea, the beach, the people, all waiting, all dying gently, sadly, beautifully. Life and death were being recorded here as a whole: death as a part of life, a cosmic change, a transformation. And the waves, indifferent to everything.

Director Biography

Miguel Fonseca was born in Lisbon in 1973. He studied philosophy in college and in 2008 he directed Alpha, his first short film. He produced the experimental short film I Know You Can Hear Me, a film within a film – a film within the first John Rambo film, First Blood, directed by Ted Kotcheff in 1982. He shot the short film The Waves in 2012. He works as a director and as a writer.

Director

Miguel Fonseca

Producer

Miguel Fonseca

Sandro Aguilar

Cinematographer

Mário Castanheira

Editor

Sandro Aguilar

Sound

António Figueiredo

Contact

O Som e a Fúria
Av. Almirante Reis, 113 – 5º, Esc. 505
1150-014 Lisbon, Portugal
+351 213 582 518
[email protected]