Set in Portugal’s remote northeast, Trás-os-Montes is a magical time-traveling tapestry within which daily realities, chores, and rituals are interwoven with the stories of the people who lived and labored there through the centuries. Jean Rouch described it as “a revelation of a new cinematographic language. Never, as far as I know, has a director managed to capture the cinematographic expression of a region: that is, a difficult communion between man, landscape and the seasons . . . the ghosts of an undoubtedly essential myth suddenly appear, in the curve of a new path, because we have recognized them even before we met them.”