Terra Vil, a feature film by Luis Campos, LabMed 2022 resident, continues an impressive international journey. The film is now completed and has been selected and screened at several major festivals, including Mostra International de São Paulo (2025), Tallinn Black Nights – Just Film Youth Competition (2025), Tribeca Lisboa (2025), as well as the Göteborg Film Festival, in the Ingmar Bergman Competition (2026).
Terra Vil tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who lives with his alcoholic father on the banks of the Douro River, near a woman and her teenage daughters. Their daily life depends on fishing, a fragile balance increasingly threatened by the effects of climate change and the father’s growing instability, which gradually endangers their survival.
Terra Vil will be released in Portuguese theaters on February 26, 2026, marking an important new milestone for this project supported by Meditalents. Congratulations to Luis Campos and his team on this remarkable journey.
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Founded Squatter Factory / Matiné in 2014, from which he launched screenwriting training initiatives such as GUIÕES, PLOT - Professional Script Lab and DRAMA.pt. He participated in Berlinale Talents 2017, ZFF Masterclass 2019, EAVE Producers Workshop 2020 (with his first feature film project as writer and director of Dirty Land), Rotterdam Lab 2021 and Locarno Match Me 2021. Is the Head of Development for Film and Television at BRO Cinema as of April 2019. Has played a role in the development of international film projects at Savage Film (Belgium) and RT Features (Brazil). Wrote, produced and directed the short film CARGA (2017), winner of over 10 awards and exhibited in over 20 countries. Through Squatter Factory, Luis has produced 3 other award-winning shorts (Marasmus, Crutches and Sheila). He is completing a PhD program in Media Arts at the University of Beira Interior.
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