The Wolf's Lair

A Toca do Lobo

“Families can now make sense of their past, reinterpret old memories and discover new truths.”

Every family has its secrets, the family of Portuguese filmmaker Mourão included. As the granddaughter of the well-known writer Tomaz de Figueiredo, she picks apart several of them in an intimate yet universally meaningful way. As such, her film also becomes a portrait of dictatorship and resistance and of the urge to create art.