Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.
Still from Empty Hands (2021), by Darya Films.

EMPTY HANDS

A surreal dark comedy about a depressed undertaker who asks his dead clients for life advice.

  • Caetano hasn’t slept in years. More precisely, 5 years. Ever since his wife died in Portugal’s most famous death-by-selfie. Terminally depressed, he went to work in his father’s funeral home, where he chats with the dead. Every night he thinks of suicide, but is too afraid of pain. Fausto, a deceased professor, tells him about an obscure euthanasia self-help group. Could this be the solution?

  • Production
    Darya Films | Kinora Filmes

    Funding
    ICA — Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual (Portugal) | Servilusa


  • Caetano Dinarte Branco

    Fausto António Durães

    Idalino José Manuel Mendes

    Olivia Rita Reve

  • Writer & Director Paolo Marinou-Blanco

    Director of Photograpy Miguel Sales Lopes

    Editing Kathryn J. Schubert

    Casting Patrícia Vasconcelos

    Sound Director Bruno Garcez

    Production Designer João Torres

    Costume Design Maura Carneiro

    Make Up & Hair Catarina Santiago

    Sound Designer & Mixer Hugo Leitão

    Line Producer Cristiana Cruz Forte

    Producers Paolo Marinou-Blanco | Miguel Sales Lopes

  • Darya Films | Kinora Filmes

  • Coming soon.

  • Curtas Vila do Conde

    San Francisco Interrnational Film Festival

    Izmir Interrnational Film Festival

    Provincetown Interrnational Film Festival

    Flickers Rhode Island Interrnational Film Festival Best Film

    Badajoz Interrnational Film Festival Young Jury Award

    Shortcutz Ovar Audience Award

    Shortcutz Aveiro Audience Award

    Shortuctz Lisboa

    FESTin Interrnational Film Festival Best Short Film

    Art Film Festival Best National Film & Director


  • Coming soon.