CARLA BOLITO - PORTUGAL

Carla Bolito was born in Mozambique and moved to Portugal after the April Revolution. She trained with a university theatre group at the French Institute in Lisbon as well as in Paris under Alain Maratrat. She has performed in many Portuguese stage productions. Her feature debut, in Corte de Cabelo (Haircut) by Joaquim Sapinho, won the Critics's Prize for Best Actress at the Stars de Demain Festival in Geneva in 1996. She has had roles in several TV productions as well as in various feature films and has directed two stage productions.

LIGHT DROPS / O GOTEJAR DA LUZ
35mm colour 110'
Directed by Fernando Vendrell
Produced by Cinemate Producoes


Rui grew up in Mozambique, living his childhood in a territory lost deep in the woods, close to an untamed nature, at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of a Portuguese colonist, he soon learned to recognize two distinct realities and emotional lives the European and the African.
His life was characterized by the constant choice in front of him: two cultures, black and white; lord and slave; violence and peace; love and passion. At fourteen, and confronted with the tragic and inevitable destruction of his childhood, Rui Pedro must finally make a choice...Carla Bolito plays the role of Isaura, a complex, beautiful woman, torn between choices she must make in this film by Fernando Vendrell.