Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing for the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until the origin of the species, at least. This feeling, common to many latitudes, is often presented as a diagnosis, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past.

Direction: Jorge Jácome

Script: Pedro Penim, Jorge Jácome

Production: Jorge Jácome

Cinematography: Jorge Jácome, Marta Simões

Editing: Jorge Jácome

Sound: Shugo Tekina, António Porém Pires

Original Score: Jorge Jácome, Pedro Penim

Original Title: PAST PERFECT

Original Language: Portuguese

Film Production Country: Portugal

Website: http://portugalfilm.org/film/past_perfect

Social Media: http://portugalfilm.org/film/past_perfect

Biography of the Director/s
Jorge Jácome was born in Viana do Castelo (Portugal) in 1988 and spent is childhood in Macau. He completed his degree in Cinema in 2010 at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and in 2016 graduated with ‘felicitations du jury’ from Le Fresnoy - Studio national des Arts Contemporains. His work is based on a strongly intuitive and sensorial process resulting in films made of narrative drifts, unexpected relationships and unusual encounters.
His short films have been shown at film festivals in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Slovenia, Poland and Israel, and in retrospectives at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, CalArts - California Institute of the Arts and at Georgetown University.

Filmography of the Director/s
2019 PAST PERFECT, short
2017 FLORES, short
2016 FIESTA FOREVER, short
2015 A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST, short
2013 PLUTÃO, short

Awards Won
selected at Uppsala International Short Film Festival

Best European Short Art Film - Go Short Int'l Short FF Nijmegen 2019
International Competition's Short Film Grand Prize - IndieLisboa 2019
Best Film - Hamburg Int'l Short FF 2019
Main Award - Moscow Int'l Experimental FF 2019
Special Mention - Press Jury Cision - Caminhos do Cinema Português 2019

Production Company:
Jorge Jácome
Jorge Jácome
Casa do Cinema Rua da Rosa 277 2º Sala 1.4
Lisbon, 1200-385, Portugal
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +351 213 466 172

World Sales:
Portugal Film - Portuguese Film Agency
Filipa Henriques
Casa do Cinema Rua da Rosa 277 2º Sala 1.4
Lisbon, 1200-385, Portugal
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +351 213 466 172

Press:
Portugal Film - Portuguese Film Agency
Filipa Henriques
Casa do Cinema Rua da Rosa 277 2º Sala 1.4
Lisbon, 1200-385, Portugal
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +351 213 466 172