Fátima

The film is about a pilgrimage. The journey takes place in May 2016. Eleven women set out. All of them are from a village in northern Portugal. Where they want to arrive is Fatima. The distance is over four hundred kilometres. The journey takes nine days. The women walk to keep their vows. There is rain and there is exhaustion along the way. Differences of opinion break out among them. The arguments grow harsher over time. As the tiredness mounts each of them begins to speak of herself. Rita Blanco and Anabela Moreira take the leads, with Cleia Almeida also in the cast, in João Canijo’s French and Portuguese coproduction of 2017.