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Last Wednesday saw the opening of the 2020 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the film which kicked it off was João Nuno Pinto's Portuguese war drama Mosquito. Based for a large part on the stories his grandfather told him, Mosquito tackles Portugal's colonial past in Africa, where during the first World War the locals in Mozambique were caught between the armies of the German invaders and the Portuguese... eh... Other invaders who happened to be there a bit earlier. João Nunes Monteiro plays Zacarias, a Portuguese boy who runs away from home in 1917 and joins the army, hoping to be sent to the French front, dreaming of righteous glory. Instead, he finds himself on a boat towards far away colonies, to...

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Mosquito, a period drama from Portuguese filmmaker João Nuno Pinto (América), will open the 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam, kicking off the inaugural fest under new director Bero Beyer.

Described as a "war film without war," Mosquito follows a 17-year-old Portuguese recruit drafted to fight in World War I who gets lost in the African wilderness. The film will have its world premiere in Rotterdam in the festival's Big Screen Competition section.

In a nod to the mainstream, Rotterdam has picked Marielle Heller's feel-good feature A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks as children'...