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Fatima (2020) – Trailer 1

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A 10-year-old shepherd girl’s visions of the Virgin Mary are about to hit theaters, and Picturehouse just dropped the first real look.

The trailer for “Fatima,” released February 7, 2020, gives the fullest look yet at director Marco Pontecorvo’s dramatization of the 1917 Marian apparitions in Fátima, Portugal. Framed against the backdrop of World War I, the film follows Lúcia dos Santos and her younger cousins as their claims of seeing the Virgin Mary turn a quiet farming parish into a pilgrimage site — and a target for both government and Church pressure. Picturehouse has the film set for an April 24, 2020 theatrical release.

• Stephanie Gil (“Terminator: Dark Fate”) plays young Lúcia dos Santos, with Alejandra Howard and Jorge Lamelas as cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, the three shepherd children at the center of the apparitions.
• A parallel timeline follows an elderly Sister Lúcia (Sônia Braga), decades later, defending her account to a skeptical academic, Professor Nichols, played by Harvey Keitel.
• The trailer closes on glimpses of the “Miracle of the Sun” on October 13, 1917, when tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in the rain at the apparition site.

The Story the Trailer Sets Up

The narrative centers on Lúcia’s visions of the Virgin Mary, played by Joana Ribeiro, who instructs the children to pray the Rosary and endure suffering as the path to peace amid the war. As word spreads, secular authorities led by Arturo (Goran Višnjić) and Church figures including Father Ferreira (Joaquim de Almeida) push the children to recant, while Lúcia’s own mother, Maria Rosa (Lúcia Moniz), reacts with open skepticism and distress at what her daughter is claiming.

That dual pressure — from the local mayor’s office and from clergy — is the engine of the trailer’s tension. It’s not just a story of a miracle; it’s a story of three kids getting squeezed by every adult institution around them while pilgrims keep arriving anyway.

The Frame Story With Harvey Keitel

Bookending the 1917 events is a later-life thread built entirely around the older Sister Lúcia, now cloistered, sparring with Professor Nichols over whether her childhood memories hold up to scrutiny. Braga and Keitel’s scenes give the trailer its most direct back-and-forth, positioning the film as much a debate about belief and memory as a period recreation.

Sister Lúcia’s insistence to Professor Nichols that what she saw as a child was real is the trailer’s clearest thesis: this is a film built to make skeptics and believers sit in the same room.

The Craft Behind the Camera

Pontecorvo, who co-wrote the script with Valerio D’Annunzio, is working from a producing team that includes Origin Entertainment, Elysia Productions, and Rose Pictures, with Natasha Howes, James T. Volk, and Rose Ganguzza producing. Composer Paolo Buonvino scores the film, and the trailer’s emotional lift gets an extra assist from the end-credit song “Gratia Plena,” performed by Andrea Bocelli — a pairing that signals how squarely this production is aiming at the same audience that turns out for films like “The Passion of the Christ” or “Risen.” Fans tracking what’s actually reaching theaters this spring can see where “Fatima” fits among the only big movies left that still may come out in 2020.

The Strategic Importance of Timing

An April 24 release lands “Fatima” in the thick of spring counterprogramming, competing for the same faith-based audience that has turned smaller-budget religious dramas into surprise hits before. With a cast stacked with recognizable names — de Almeida, Višnjić, Moniz, Braga, and Keitel alongside newcomers Gil, Howard, and Lamelas — Picturehouse is clearly betting the ensemble can carry the film beyond its niche. Anyone keeping an eye on what else is landing in theaters that season can check the latest trending movie trailers for context.

The trailer never shows how Nichols’ investigation resolves, and that’s by design — Pontecorvo is saving the argument between the elderly Lúcia and the professor for the feature itself. What’s already locked in is the date: April 24, theaters, with Bocelli’s voice closing it out.