Double Bill: 2 movie sessions organized by Filhos de Lumière

Il Posto
Ermanno Olmi (Italy, 1961)
Original version with Portuguese subtitles

Domenico Canti is hired in a company where pretty Antonietta Works. The naive, timid young man gets accustomed to his new Job and falls in love with her co-worker. But she prefers other employees, more progressive and coming from a better background…

The Way I spent the End of The World
Catalin Mitulescu (Romania, 2005)
Original version with Portuguese subtitles

Bucharest, 1989 – last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and 7-year-old little brother, Lalalilu. Eva is beautiful. In love for the first time, she discovers teenage agonising indecision and how complex adult life is. Eva has a secret dream her brother only knows: running away from Romania and travelling the world.