Fora de Campo Filmes

Alice decides to move to Berlin, and Ema, her roommate, organizes her a farewell dinner, “The Useless”.

Edgar is going to Lisbon to study this year. He is spending the summer travelling with Diogo, going from festival to festival. Northern Portugal as a landscape.

Maria and Rafa are two friends who grew up in a small town where everyone leaves at 18 to go somewhere else. With the eve of university exams and applications approaching, they will have to face the possibility that this “place” will be the same for both, or if they will each go their own way.

The premiere in La Rochelle held deep symbolic and emotional significance: it is the festival co-founded by Jean-Loup Passek, now the stage for the first screening of a film that celebrates his legacy and the heartfelt connection between France and Portugal, between Melgaço and the world of cinema.