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After being screened and received fourteen awards at festivals and released in Brazil, Ocean Girl releases on August 25, 2022 in cinemas in Portugal, by Portuguese distributor Nitrato Filmes.

Premiere August 25, 2022 in Porto (Cinema Trindade), Lisbon (Cinema City Alvalade) and Coimbra (Casa do Cinema de Coimbra)

Cinema Trindade
August 25th to 31st:
Daily at 2:30 pm and 9:30 pm, except:
Sunday (28th) 2:30 pm + 6:00 pm
Wednesday (31st) 2:30 pm + 7:30 pm
Sunday (28th) at 6:00 pm: Ocean Girl - Special Session with director Djin Sganzerla facebook.com/events/1722215678170985
Online sale: cinematrindade.pt/comprar-bilhete

Cinema City Alvalade
August 25th to 31st:
Daily at 7:10 pm
Friday (26th) at 7:10 pm Ocean Girl - Special Session with director Djin Sganzerla facebook.com/events/1013246599353653
Online sale: https://www.cinemacity.pt/

Casa do Cinema de Coimbra
August 25th to 31st:
Thursday 25 Aug (4:00 pm)
Friday 26 Aug (6:00 pm)
Saturday 27 Aug (9:30 pm)
Monday 29 Aug (6:00 pm)
Tuesday 30 Aug (6:00 pm)
Wednesday 31 Aug (6:00 pm)
6:00 pm / 6:00 pm — Piso 0, Galerias Avenida
4:00 pm — Auditório Salgado Zenha, AAC
>> Advance tickets at https://www.caminhos.info/casa/ or at the Center for Cinematographic Studies (1st floor, AAC)
The ticket office opens 30min before each session.

Information: nitratofilmes.com/filme/mulher-oceano

Second week at the movie theatres in Portugal:

Porto (Cinema Trindade), Lisbon (Cinema City Alvalade) and Madeira (openning the movie cycle É TUDO BRASIL, by Screenings Funchal.)

Cinema Trindade
September 1st to 7th:
Daily at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm, except:
Wednesday (7th) 6:15 pm
Online sale: cinematrindade.pt/comprar-bilhete

Cinema City Alvalade
September 1st to 7th:
Daily at 7:35 pm
Online sale: https://www.cinemacity.pt/

Screenings Funchal
September 2nd and 3rd at 9:00pm.

"Djin Sganzerla's debut as a director is yet another demonstration of the enlightened moment that Brazilian cinema lives in the 21st century. Even carrying all the adversity on it’s back, it continues to create variety, original and relevant beauties like this Ocean Girl". “It shows originality of Djin Sganzerla in the direction.”

"Risk, her name is Djin; her surname: Sganzerla; her challenge: she stands as a director. In the past two decades, very few actresses in the Americas have embodied so much (and so well) the essence of the boldness of aesthetic risk’s cinema as the heir to the legacy of "The Red Light Bandit."

“Djin seems to have an innate feeling of beauty and harmony, searching for them with infinite curiosity in beings, gestures and places. The edge of Rio de Janeiro, for example, is shown in a surprising way. Seen from the moving sea, she runs away from the city's shabby postcards. Djin's film is more reminiscent of Tokyo-Ga's Wenders and the aforementioned Kieslowski than her parents' cinema. The reference / reverence to them occurs in a subtle way.”

"Written, directed, edited and produced by women, the film carries a welcome and inevitable female soul that is deeply in tune with the water element that permeates it poetically from the first to the last scene. Pain, doubts, experiences and - mainly - challenges of oceanic proportions compose and decompose the lives of these two protagonists who struggle to find their spaces of poetic sensibility on this fluid planet erroneously called Earth."

“An immense, powerful and enchanting work.”

“The sea is a mother. Embrace, cherish, take refuge. And character. The synesthesia contained in its dramatic density and perennial symbolism is the soul of Ocean Girl, a film by Djin Sganzerla.”

“Ocean Girl is, in more ways than one, a film about learning to loosen the strings, about freeing yourself from imposing identities, about allowing yourself to be other people. Be it during a dive, be it in the search for the writing of a novel, or in the revealing of the body to the gaze of the other.”