Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Premiered at Locarno Film Festival, Dead Slow Ahead is about Fair Lady, an enormous freighter which sets sails from Istanbul and touches at the ports of Odessa, Nicolaev, Istanbul, Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, Aqaba, Cueta, Triumph and New Orleans. It sails in the middle of the ocean without an ensign, placeless, and perhaps even out of time. (film.iksv.org)

The inhabitants of a small village lost in the woodland between Galicia and Portugal play their own life mixed with dialogues from 'O bosque', a play by writer Marinhas del Valle. 'Arraianos' portrays a rural community in its obstinate resistance against disappearance. (FilmAffinity)