The lady of Chandor
Directed by
Catarina Mourão
year
1998
Duration
93 minutes
Synopsis
Thirty-five years after it’s independence from the Portuguese colonial rule, Goa is definitely a state of many contrasts. Together with a strong migrating Hindu population, there is still a Portuguese speaking minority which seems somewhat frozen in nostalgia and kept in a strange time limbo. Aida, the Lady of Chandor, lives alone in Goa. At 82 years of age she devotes each day to caring for her beautiful old house, a house which has survived three centuries of Portuguese colonial rule. Without the Lady of Chandor the house will die. Without the house Aida would loose her reason for living. But inside this house time moves in a magical way and both the house and the Lady of Chandor seem immortal.
crew
Script  Catarina Mourão
Photography  João Ribeiro
Sound  Armanda Carvalho
Editing  Pedro Mateus Duarte e Catarina Mourão
Production  Pedro Correia Martins
Awards
1998  Melhor obra Documental Prémio António Reis - Encontros Internacionais de Cinema Documental da Malaposta
1998  Menção Honrosa da Federação Nacional de Cineclubes
1998  Prémio de revelação “Prémio Aurélio Paz dos Reis”, Ministério da Cultura/ICAM
1999  Prémio de “Best Script” (Melhor Argumento) - 8o Festival Internacional de Filme Etnográfico de Belgrado

Festivals and exhibitions
1998  IX Encontros Internacionais de Cinema Documental da Malaposta
1999  Festival de Cinema de Turim
1999  Festival Internacional de Cinema de Bucareste
1999  Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cabo Verde
1999  8o Festival Internacional de Filme Etnográfico de Belgrado
1999  Museu Nacional de Etnologia
1999  Cinemateca Portuguesa no ciclo O Novo Documentário
1999  Teatro Rivoli
1999  Bienal de arte da Maia
2000  Festival Internacional de Filme Etnográfico de Gottingen
2000  Auditório da FNAC do Chiado [Portugal] [2014] Ciclo Cinemagosto Film Fokus
2002  Festival International du Nouveau Cinema et des nouveaux medias
2019  Escola das Gaivotas
2019  Festival Periferias
2019  Cinema Paraíso de Macau
2019  Cinema Monumental