Tokyo International Film Festival (October 28 to November 6, 2024) has just announced that THE ENGLISHMAN’S PAPERS (Os Papéis do Inglês), a film by Sérgio Graciano, based on the trilogy "Os Filhos de Próspero", by the Angolan writer Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, was selected for the Official Selection in Competition, and will be in the running for the prestigious Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix.

The script of THE ENGLISHMAN’S PAPERS was written by the awarded writer José Eduardo Agualusa. The film features a remarkable cast, starring João Pedro Vaz (Remains of the Wind, Grand Tour and the Netflix series Gloria), David Caracol (An Outpost of Progress and The Black Book), and Joana Ribeiro (The Black Book, The Man Who Killed D. Quixote, and the series Gloria and The Veil), among others.

THE ENGLISHMAN’S PAPERS also exists in a mini series version of 3 episodes produced for ARTE France.