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Maria Vitória

2025 · 114 min

Quietly intense and emotionally charged, it immerses you in a remote world of grief and determination, with a slow-burning tension that lingers.

Directed by: Mário Patrocínio
Genres: Drama
Starring: Mariana Cardoso, Miguel Borges, Miguel Nunes

Overview: Maria Vitória lives in a remote village in the Portuguese mountains and plays football on the local boys youth team. Determined to become a professional, she devotes all her free time to intense training with her father. Their routine is shaken by the unexpected return of her older brother, who left many years earlier after a tragic fire that took their mother’s life. As she prepares for the most important match of her life, Maria begins to question her father’s authority and gradually seeks a way to break free and take control of her own future.

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Directed by: Mário Patrocínio
Genres: Drama
Starring: Mariana Cardoso, Miguel Borges, Miguel Nunes

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
family
identity
coming-of-age
isolation
Places: countryside
small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	4
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Mário Patrocínio
Written by: Mário Patrocínio
Starring: Mariana Cardoso, Miguel Borges, Miguel Nunes, Ana Cristina Oliveira, Bárbara Albuquerque, Adriano Carvalho, António Durães, Benedito José
Runtime: 114 min
Country: Portugal
Languages: Portuguese

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