Part of the session: Lives and Places #8
Across generations in the Village of Fools—as the hamlet of Corte Gafo de Cima is known—fictions were created to make sense of reality. A film is finished, though unfinished: made of silences and empty images, of hesitations and corrections still to be made, driven by the urgency of not letting the memories of a distant Alentejo village die, even as a love affair fades away.
João Afonso Vaz was born in Lisbon and lived in a small town in Alentejo until the age of 18. Studied Cinema, Video, and Multimedia Communication at ULHT. In 2018, he founded the production company Maus da Fita, that produced award winning films like Alcindo, Os Últimos dias de Emanuel Raposo and Lindo. As a director we won Best Director (InShadow) in films like Complex of Shadow and Cold.
