Encontro Filming Locations
Where was Encontro filmed? Encontro was filmed in 3 locations across Portugal, Cape Verde and Belgium in the following places:
Encontro Filming Locations
Lisbon is Portugal’s hilly, coastal capital city. From imposing São Jorge Castle, the view encompasses the old city’s pastel-colored buildings, Tagus Estuary and Ponte 25 de Abril suspension bridge. Nearby, the National Azulejo Museum displays 5 centuries of decorative ceramic tiles. Just outside Lisbon is a string of Atlantic beaches, from Cascais to Estoril.
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres.
Belgium, a country in Western Europe, is known for medieval towns, Renaissance architecture and as headquarters of the European Union and NATO. The country has distinctive regions including Dutch-speaking Flanders to the north, French-speaking Wallonia to the south and a German-speaking community to the east. The bilingual capital, Brussels, has ornate guildhalls at Grand-Place and elegant art-nouveau buildings.
Encontro (2022)
On the mobile phone of Alain, a belgium director in his fifties, appears a mysterious picture. Enough time to recognise Luisa, the portuguese actress he loved so passionately 7 years ago, during the shooting of his unfinished film. Obsessed by that picture, perceived as a divine invitation, he leaves his house in Belgium and returns to Lisbon to see his actress again. Once in place, discovers that she had disappeard, while a unknown offers him help for the investigation. It beggins for him a hipnotic journey, guided by the dream of the past, the present in Lisbon, and his imaginary world in Cabo Verde, where it surfaces the duality between those two women.