''From Now On'' ( pt, Daqui P'ra Frente) is a 2007 Portuguese film directed by

Catarina Ruivo Catarina Ruivo (b. Coimbra, 1971), Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialect ...

, written by Ruivo and Antonio Figueiredo and produced by

Paulo Branco Paulo Branco (born 3 June 1950) is a Portuguese film producer. Life and career Paulo Branco was born in Lisbon, and attended the undergraduate program in chemical engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico but he did not graduate. He star ...

. The film stars

Luís Miguel Cintra Luís Miguel Valle Cintra (born 29 April 1949) is a Portuguese actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1970. In 1973 Cintra founded the Teatro da Cornucópia with Jorge Silva Melo. Selected filmography * ''A Ilha dos Amores'' (1982) ...

, Adelaide de Sousa, Antonio Figueiredo,

Edgar Morais Edgar Morais is an actor and filmmaker. He studied theater in Lisbon, Portugal and was a student of Ivana Chubbuck in LA and Susan Batson in NYC and has worked with globally celebrated filmmakers such as Larry Clark, Victoria Mahoney, Teresa Suth ...

and Alexandre Pinto.

Plot

Dora (Adelaide de Sousa) divides her time between her work as a beautician, her life with her police officer husband António (Luís Miguel Cintra), and her involvement in left-wing politics.

Cast

as Antonio * Adelaide de Sousa as Dora *

as Nelson * Alexandre Pinto as Jorge * Antonio Figueiredo as Policeman

Release

''From Now On'' screened for the first time in 2007 at the

Rio Film Festival The Festival do Rio is an international film festival in Rio de Janeiro. The festival was the result of a 1999 merger of two previous film festivals, the Rio Cine Festival and the Mostra Banco Nacional de Cinema. Founded in 1984 and 1988 respectivel ...

, (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and was widely released in Portugal, France and Germany on September 18, 2007. The official premiere took place in Lisbon,

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

on January 24, 2008.

Awards

2008

Caminhos do Cinema Português The Caminhos do Cinema Português ( pt, Paths for Portuguese Cinema) is the only festival of exclusively Portuguese cinema, held in Portugal. It is a project of the "Centro de Estudos Cinematográficos" (Centre for Cinematographic Study) of the As ...

*Won: Best Film

References

External links

''From Now On''
at the Clap Filmes website * 2007 films Films produced by Paulo Branco Portuguese drama films 2000s Portuguese-language films {{Portugal-film-stub