Carlos Pereira
Locarno Residency 2024 | Germany, Portugal
Locarno Residency 2024 | Germany, Portugal
Carlos Pereira, born in Lisbon, is currently studying Film Directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). His films have been screened at festivals such as Locarno and San Sebastián. His film Slimane won the German Film Critics Award for Best Short Film of 2023. In 2022, he was awarded a residency at The Bergman Estate on Fårö, where he wrote the first draft of his first feature film, Remote Islands, currently in development.
2023 Slimane
2022 Vulkan
2018 Histórias de Fantasmas
During a summer in Berlin, a family begins to suffer from a strange phenomenon of collective insomnia. Omar and Simon drift apart, forgetting who they used to be. Layla and Mira, their daughters, try to realise who they are, living the first experiences that will shape everything that follows. The insomnia spreads through their bodies, one by one, like a virus. Searching for peace and answers, they decide to travel to a remote island.
Remote Islands is a film that takes as its starting point a mysterious phenomenon of collective insomnia within a family to talk about how its members affect and infect each other, perpetuating traumas and fears that spread like a virus.
