Kino Lorber will release on Blu-ray director Gabriel Mascaro's film
August Winds (2014), starring Dandara de Morais, Antônio José Dos Santos, Maria Salvino Dos Santos, and Geová Manoel Dos Santos. The release will be available for purchase on September 6.
In 2014,
August Winds won Best Actress (Dandara de Morais) and
Best Cinematography (Gabriel Mascaro Brazilia) Awards at the Festival of Brazilian Cinema.
Synopsis: Shirley (Dandara de Morais) has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison (Geova Manoel dos Santos), who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time. During the month of August, when tropical storms pound the coastline, a researcher registering the sound of the trade winds emanating from the Intertropical Convergence Zone arrives in their village. The high tides and the growing winds mark the following days of the village and a surprise discovery takes Shirley and Jeison on a journey that confronts them with the duel between life and death, loss and memory, the wind and the sea.