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AFTER_LINK

At the peak of Summer, mysterious things happen when a young couple travel to a mountain that seems to affect their technology.

  • Catarina De Cèzanne
    Director
  • Catarina De Cèzanne
    Writer
    Knitting Out (screenplay)
  • Frank Kallenberg
    Producer
    Unsin
  • Sofia Vilar
    Key Cast
    "Marta"
    Amar Demais (TV series, 2021); Km 224: A Série (TV Series, 2023)
  • Nazariy Koval
    Key Cast
    "David"
  • Carolina Manfredi
    Key Cast
    "Jess (voice)"
  • Frank Kallenberg
    DOP's
    Unsin
  • Samanta Encarnação
    1st AC / Focus Puller
  • Gastão Travado
    Production Designer
  • Randy L. Ericsson
    Art Director
  • Rebecca Pilkington
    Art Director
    Eternals (2021), The Danish Girl (2015)
  • Ilka Selmeczy
    Props Master
    Dune (2021); Poor Things (2023)
  • Sérgio Botelho
    Sound Director
    Duros de Roer (2022); Um Filme do Caraças (2023)
  • Oscar Sobrado
    Sound Designer & Mix
  • Anastasia Taylor
    Make Up & Hair
    Unsin
  • Antony Frew
    Production Manager
    Gladiator (2000)
  • Patrícia Alpoim
    AP
  • Irene Leite
    Prod Coordinator
  • Cristiano Guerreiro
    Grip (sometimes 1st AD)
  • Diego Sualdea
    Music
  • Hazem Amin
    VFX
    Alrawabi School of Girls (TV Series, 2023)
  • László Adam
    VFX
    The Peacemakers (short, 2021)
  • Heather Pettit
    VFX
    Lego Star Wars
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Sci-Fi, Romance, Horror, Author
  • Runtime:
    22 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 14, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    6,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Portugal
  • Country of Filming:
    Portugal
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    4K Anamorphic
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • VIII Feel The Reel
    Iasi
    Romania
    December 9, 2025
    Eastern European Premiere
    Winner
  • XXXI Caminhos do Cinema Português
    Coimbra
    Portugal
    November 21, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Entre Olhares | Festival de Cinema Português
    Barreiro
    Portugal
    November 6, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Dark Nights Film Festival
    Sydney
    Australia
    October 12, 2025
    Australian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • XIII CineFem Uruguay
    Punta del Este
    Uruguay
    September 20, 2025
    Uruguayan Premier
    Official Selection
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    September 26, 2025
    Colombian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • XXII Festival Cine Terror Valdivia (Fantlatam - Aliança latino-americana de cinema fantástico)
    Valdivia
    Chile
    May 7, 2025
    Latin America Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 22nd Annual Atlanta Underground Film Festival
    Atlanta
    United States
    August 8, 2026
    Southeastern American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 50th Boston SciFi Film Festival & Marathon
    Boston, MA
    United States
    February 16, 2025
    American Premiere
    Official selection
  • Prague Film Festival
    Prague, Czech Republic
    April 25, 2025
    Central Europe Premiere
    Official Selection (in competition)
  • MotelX - Festival International de Cinema de Terror de Lisboa
    Lisbon
    Portugal
    September 14, 2024
    Nominee MotelX Award 2024
  • Northern Lights Fantastic Film Festival
    Akureyri
    Iceland
    November 2, 2024
    International
    Official Selection
  • FEST - New Directors / New Films
    Espinho
    Portugal
    June 26, 2024
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • FICTV - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE TERROR DE VALPARAISO
    VALPARAISO
    Chile
    December 7, 2024
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • FilmTwist - Streaming Platform
    Distributor
    Country: Portugal
    Rights: Internet, Pay Per View
    Country: Angola
    Rights: Internet, Pay Per View
    Country: Cabo Verde
    Rights: Internet, Pay Per View
    Country: Guinea-Bissau
    Rights: Internet, Pay Per View
    Country: Mozambique
    Rights: Internet, Pay Per View
    Country: Sao Tome and Principe
    Rights: Internet, Pay Per View
  • CTLX – CINECLUBE DE TERROR DE LISBOA
    Distributor
    Country: Portugal
Director Biography - Catarina De Cèzanne

Catarina César (aka Catarina De Cèzanne) is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter, born in a very small village in the South of Portugal. She speaks 3 languages and holds a master's degree in Film/TV production. She has been travelling around the world alone and lived in three different countries for years while looking for a place to belong. Today she is still looking for that place. A place to call home.

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Director Statement

(We have a shorter version of 12mins)

After Link is a retro digital horror that blends surrealism and techno-nostalgia with a warm coming-of-age, in an Era of digital disconnection. A cybernetic ritual dressed as youth horror.

We wanted to craft a genre-bending seánce that feels like a post-internet myth of ghosts in the code, made for our 90s generation; a portrait of our desire for connection. A film for our generation, who were raised by broken servers and forgotten forums.

The film screened at the 50th Boston SciFi in the USA and MOTELX in Portugal, leaving our audience craving for more of this unsettling techno-theosophical tale that mixes blood, code, and spiritual yearning and the possibility to bend reality and that our minds were connected to everything else; and that our dreams and the web are as real as the physical world we live in.

Watching our filmmaker's Q&A in Boston was like travelling with the audience on a philosophical quest. A spiral of ideas around the film's main question: What if our soul got archived before our body died? What if it's already happening while we're still alive?
We are submitting to Festivals all around the world to repeat this experience, expand and find our audience, as well as connecting with other filmmakers for future collaborations in the industry.

AFTER LINK was set dressed by Rebecca Pilkington, well known for working on the Oscar-winning film The Danish Girl and the Eternals, and by our PropsMaster Ilka Selmeckzy, known for collaborating on Oscar-winning Poor Things, and Dune. It was written/directed by first-time Portuguese director Catarina De Cèzanne, starring Portuguese actress Sofia Vilar and Ukrainian actor Nazariy Koval, and Swiss Cinematographer Frank Kallenberg. This film was only possible thanks to a diverse film crew of men, women, non-binary and also neurodiverse professionals. We are also strong supporters of the LGBTQ community, and extremely committed to give opportunities to filmmakers from isolated and economically disadvantaged regions, like ourselves. We were blessed with an international crew of both professional and emerging talents from Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, Brazil, Hungary, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. The story of After Link is inspired on a real event when my childhood friend mysteriously disappeared in the mountains 9 years ago. This film symbolises a dream we always had and was made to honour him, with the hope that one day he might watch it and come back.