Isadora Neves Marques

Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (Tornar-se um Homem na Idade Média)

Director Isadora Neves Marques Composer HAUT Cast Isabel Costa, Zé Bernardino, Nuno Nolasco, Isadora Neves Marques, Joana Manuel, Vítor de Andrade

LGBTQIA+

Edition 2024

Official Selection

22' - 2022 - Science Fiction, Drama, LGBT+ - Format: DCP - Dialogue: Portuguese

This short film is part of the Isadora Neves Marques Short Film Retrospective.

Mirene and André, and Carl and Vicente, are both couples in their mid-thirties. While Mirene and André struggle with their fertility, Vicente decides to undergo an experimental procedure, implanting an ovary in his body in the hopes of having a child with Carl. A love drama of speculative undertones, “Becoming Male in the Middle Ages” is an intimate tale about queer sexuality, bodily autonomy, reproductive desires, and the ghost of normativity.

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Credits

Directors

Isadora Neves Marques

Composers

HAUT

Cast

Isabel Costa, Zé Bernardino, Nuno Nolasco, Isadora Neves Marques, Joana Manuel, Vítor de Andrade

Scenario

Isadora Neves Marques

Director of Photography

Marta Simões

Editors

Margarida Lucas

Producers

Catarina de Sousa

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Dialogue

Portuguese

Countries of production

Portugal

Year

2022

Filmography

Isadora Neves Marques

Exterminator Seed (short, 2017), Art and Hurt (Toxic Image on the Street) (short, 2018), The Bite (short 2019), Becoming Male in the Midddle Ages (short 2022), My Senses Are All I Have to Offer (short, 2024)