My Village Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Directed by
Catarina Mourão
year
2006
Duration
60 minutes
Synopsis
"I was born beneath this water. I was 10 years old when it all happened. Some things I remember well, others are blurred and confused..." During six years we followed the daily life of this village, condemned to disappear beneath the waters of the Alqueva dam. Once the water arrived we followed its inhabitants to the new village: a ghostly replica of the flooded one.
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Photography  Catarina Mourão, Catarina Alves Costa e Paulo Menezes
Editing  Pedro Mateus Duarte
Sound  Armanda Carvalho e Catarina Mourão e Olivier Blanc
AWArds
2007 Prémio do Júri Ficc no Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português

Festivals and exhibitions
2005 Doc’s Kingdom Seminário Internacional de Cinema Documental
- work in progress
2006 Curtas de Vila do Conde
2006 Mostra Etnográfica do Rio de Janeiro
2006 Museu da Luz
2006 Panorama de Documentário Português
2007 Beeld voor Beeld 
2007 ProvinceTown Intenational Film Festival
2007 Caminhos do Cinema Português
2008 Prix Europa, Berlim 
2008 PlanetonFocus