I was born in Germany but my family is Portuguese. I remember spending every summer with my grandparents, who were farmers living in a small village in the Portuguese countryside. I remember playing in the main square with other kids, people cultivating the land, and animals being everywhere- today there is void and solitude. Like our family, many others turned their back on life on the fields and left for cities across Europe where the future seemed more promising. The village that once had hundreds of habitants nowadays is reduced to a few dozens of elderly farmers left to themselves. Emilio, the protagonist of this story, lives in a place he doesn’t recognize anymore. What once was a lively animal farm he proudly owned, now is vanishing behind cracking walls and overgrown grass. He witnesses the creation of his lifetime being belittled by humans and slowly reclaimed by nature.

Daniel Soares' work spans fiction, nonfiction, music videos, and fashion films and is known to reflect the quirks and oddities of humanity with cinematic visuals and nuanced storytelling to match. “O Que Resta” his first narrative short film, screened at several international festivals, such as Telluride Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and Hong Kong International Film Festival. It won the Grand Prix at the Festival Premiers Plans D’Angers and Best Portuguese Short Film at IndieLisboa International Film Festival. His previous work, “Forgotten” (2018) a documentary short film, was screened at several festivals in North America including Big Sky, Santa Barbara and Brooklyn Film Festival. Recently, he was selected into Locarno’s Spring Academy with Michelangelo Frammartino, where he wrote and directed his newest short film "Please Make It Work", which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2022.