‘Letters from War’ Asian premiere in Macau

From left, Ricardo Pereira, Miguel Nunes, Margarida Vila-Nova, Ivo Ferreira and producer Luis Urbano pose for the photographers at the Berlinale

The Macau Literary Festival announced that the film “Letters from War,” which premiered at the 66th Berlin Film Festival on Sunday, will be screened on the opening day of the Macau Literary Festival (March 5, 7.30 p.m., UA Galaxy Cinemas). Directed by Ivo Ferreira, a Macau resident, “Letters from War” is based on a book published in 2005 by the renowned Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes. The epistolary book brings together letters the young doctor and aspiring author wrote to his wife in 1971 upon being drafted into the Portuguese Army and subsequently posted to Angola during the colonial war. The film is presently in competition for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale.