North Atlantic

Directed by Bernardo Nascimento

An isolated air traffic controller in a small island of the Azores archipelago is contacted by a lone pilot cut helplessly adrift over the North Atlantic.
North Atlantic makes loneliness feel enormous with almost nothing more than two voices, an airfield and a stretch of ocean. Bernardo Nascimento’s short film connects an isolated controller in the Azores with a pilot crossing the Atlantic, and their brief radio exchange becomes unexpectedly affecting because neither man can do much for the other. The restraint is the point: a tiny moment of contact has to carry the whole emotional weight.

North Atlantic

Directed by Bernardo Nascimento

An isolated air traffic controller in a small island of the Azores archipelago is contacted by a lone pilot cut helplessly adrift over the North Atlantic.

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North Atlantic makes loneliness feel enormous with almost nothing more than two voices, an airfield and a stretch of ocean. Bernardo Nascimento’s short film connects an isolated controller in the Azores with a pilot crossing the Atlantic, and their brief radio exchange becomes unexpectedly affecting because neither man can do much for the other. The restraint is the point: a tiny moment of contact has to carry the whole emotional weight.

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