Submerged (Submersa)

Directed by Heloísa Cardoso

Runtime: 00:14:03

Country of Origin: Brazil

A young woman waits for her lover for a secret trip. However, he does not show up and does not respond to her messages. That’s when strange and inexplicable events begin to happen in her house. She asks for help from her lover, who ignores her. Realizing that she is hopelessly alone, she gives up waiting for salvation and surrenders to her own shadow.

Director Biography

Heloísa Cardoso, born in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo (1991), is a writer, playwright, screenwriter, and holds a MFA in Theatre Directing from the University of Essex (England). She has written and directed several plays and is the author of the novel "Caixão de Vidro" (Glass Coffin), published by Editora Reformatório. She studied film at Academia Internacional de Cinema (Sao Paulo), worked as a screenwriter for three short films, and directed two of them.