Anna Azevedo

In the ‘land without evil’ humans will find peace, according to the Guaraní. Not far from Rio de Janeiro, they have built a village where they can live according to their customs and their children can grow up equally influenced by ancient traditions and the modern world. The uncommented observation of their everyday lives full of games, laughter and music enables the audience to pose questions – and to search for their own right answers.

The stage is the general of Maracanã stadium. On stage, the fans known as geraldinos in a spectacle of ecstasy, fury, joy and pain.

A short documentary film built with Super 8 images. A lyric journey through the images and sensations revealed by the memories and dreams of blind people.

We are in the Sahara, in Rio de Janeiro, but it could be Beirut!

From a lifetime, a single memory has survived. Only one.

Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde. Countries linked by the sea and the culture of nostalgia. The film travels across three continents and finds characters marked by absences produced by events that transform the history of these countries. Like fascism, colonization, slavery, dictatorships and leaving never to return. The culture of saudade is the thread that connects conversations by the sea.

The weather, the wind. The fish, the beach. Work and her.