Following The Tsugua Diaries, co-directed with Miguel Gomes, Maureen Fazendeiro returns with a hybrid, poetic film where cinema becomes a means of revealing the multiple layers of time embedded in a landscape of southern Portugal. Interweaving testimonies of rural workers, field notes from archaeologists, amateur films, scientific drawings, legends, and songs, The Seasons unfolds as a dreamlike journey through the history and myths of Alentejo, and as a fleeting portrait of the people who have inhabited it. With inventive direction, sensuous 16mm cinematography, and an exquisite sound design, Fazendeiro delicately excavates the traces of a shared past ‒ one marked by wars and revolutions, resistance and transformation. The film received the Boccalino D’Oro Award for Best Contribution to Cinematic Language at the Locarno Film Festival 2025.

Maureen Fazendeiro (b. 1989, Créteil, France) is a Lisbon-based director and screenwriter. After studying in Paris, her early works—including Motu Maeva (2014) and Sol Negro (2019)—premiered at major festivals like FID Marseille and TIFF Wavelength. She frequently collaborates with Miguel Gomes, co-directing The Tsugua Diaries (Director’s Fortnight 2021) and co-writing his upcoming Savagery. Her work has been screened globally from MoMA to the Venice Biennale. Her debut feature-length documentary, The Seasons, received the Boccalino D’Oro Award for Best Contribution to Cinematic Language at the Locarno Film Festival 2025.