Wetsuit

João Salgado - Portugal (2023)

SE Sessions

02.03 Itsasmuseum 18:30

In a desolate parking lot bordering the ocean, three young surfers take off one suit and put on another as they go through the rituals of growing up. Wetsuit explores the ghosts that haunt the male identity. For these kids, torn between a life on land and a life at sea, they are tormented by what type of man they will be, which suit will they wear? In this no man’s land, we have the ghost of history, of women, of intimacy and the alpha male.

Duration: 19′

Country(ies) of origin: Portugal

Country(ies) of filming: Portugal, UK

Director: João Salgado

Production: Maria Martins, Mathilde Jouaud, Gabriela Nemesio Nobre

Script: João Salgado