• YOON

    BY PEDRO FIGUEIREDO NETO AND RICARDO FALCÃO
    Documentary | HD | 84 min | 2021
    Production: C.R.I.M.
    Commercial premiere: May 2023
    Commercial distribution: SoproFilmes | Zero em Comportamento
    Synopsis: “Yoon” follows the regular round trip taken by Senegalese routier Mbaye Sow, on an old Peugeot 504, along the 4000 Kms that separate the two places he calls home, Portugal and Senegal. It’s a perilous and lonesome journey south, filled with (mis)encounters and all kinds of challenges and compromises, where a complex network of relationships and grey areas must be navigated.

    YOON | jɒn | is a Wolof word which can mean path, law, norm, religion, or simply journey.

    With: Mbaye Sow
    Directors: Pedro Figueiredo Neto and Ricardo Falcão
    Image: Pedro Figueiredo Neto
    Sound: Ricardo Falcão
    Film editing: Francisco Moreira
    Sound edit supervisor and Mixing:
    Roland Vajs
    Original music: Mattia Bonafini and Filipe Palha
    Production: JOANA FERREIRA

    SIMULTANEOUS PREMIERE
    Ji.hlava 2021 IDFF, Opus Bonum Competition, Czech Republic
    DocLisboa 2021, National Competition, Portugal  

    AWARDS | NOMINATIONS
    Best Film “Safe and Healthy Workplaces” (European Commission), DocLisboa 2021
    Student Jury Award for Best Documentary, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2021
    Nominated for Best European Documentary, DocAlliance 2021/22
    Best Documentary Film Award, DocLuanda 2023, Angola  

    FESTIVALS
    DocLisboa International Film Festival, Portugal, 2021
    Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2021
    IDFAmsterdam 2021, Best of Fests, Netherlands
    Miradas Doc 2022, Opera Primas, Spain
    Festival Impulso 2022, Portugal
    Visions du Réel 2022, Doc Alliance Selection, Czech Republic
    Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2022, Places, Poland
    DOKFest Munich 2022, Brave New Work, Germany
    FilmAfrica 2022, The Royal African Society, United Kingdom
    DocLuanda 2023, International Competition, Angola
    Transcultural Cinema Freiburger FilmForum 2023, Veins of Life, Germany
    Forum of International and European Research on Immigration, Italy
    Provinziale, Filmfest Eberswalde 2023, Germany  

    COMMERCIAL AND CINE-CLUB SCREENINGS
    Cinema City Alvalade, May 2023
    Cinema City Leiria, May 2023
    Cinema City Setúbal, May 2023
    Cinema Trindade, Porto, May 2023
    Cinemas Castello Lopes Espaço Guimarães, June 2023
    Cinemas Castello Lopes Shopping Santarém, June 2023
    Cinemas Castello Lopes Forum Barreiro, June 2023
    Cinemas Castello Lopes Mira-Maia Shopping, June 2023
    Casa do Cinema, Coimbra, May 2023
    Auditório Salgado Zenha, Coimbra, May 2023
    Cine-clube de Joane, Feb. 2022
    Cine-clube de Viseu, July 2023
    Cine-clube do Faial, Dec. 2023
    Cine-clube da Guarda, Oct. 2023
    Special screenings in Dakar, Embassy of Portugal in Senegal and Instituto Camões, May 2022
    Special session at the Portuguese Cinematheque, June 2022
    Cineclube de Montemor-o-Novo, 2021