Coming soon in September at Solar Cinematic Gallery, Vila do Conde; Batalha Centro Cinema, Porto; Circular Festival, Vila do Conde; and in November at Kunstwerk Kolderveen, The Netherlands.

Fanfare 2025 is a dystopian fiction that unfolds in bucolic settings. Filmed in Giethoorn, a water town in the interior of the Netherlands – the same one where Bert Haanstra shot the Dutch classic Fanfare (1958), written by Jan Blokker and with music by Jan Mul – the film recreates and updates the original narrative: a rural philharmonic band divided by internal disputes is still trying to make it in time for the national competition.
But time, here, is different. In this version, the musicians, as in Haanstra's original work, are at odds, divided by petty disputes that waste their time. Fernandes works with a true local fanfare —De Bergklanken (Netherlands)—, which acts as the protagonist of the film.