The life of a family in Africa, between the 50s and 70s, narrated from archival images shot in 8mm.

biografia

After graduating in Novas Tecnologias da Comunicação by Universidade de Aveiro and a course in Cinema Production, Inês finished the International MA Humanidades na Europa: Convergências e Aberturas with the thesis “As relações entre o cinema neo-realista italiano e os três filmes portugueses: Nazaré, Dom Roberto e Os Verdes Anos” at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She attended a semestre at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain and another at Universidade Degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy. She interned at Os Filhos de Lumière, cultural society, where she assisted the organising of cinema awareness workshops for kids and teenagers. Nowadays she is based in Berlin, interning at magazine Berlinda, a cultural magazine of the city and the Portuguese language diaspora. Apart from small short experimental films, A Simpler Life is her first film work.

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