Sete Dias com o Mar à Minha Esquerda
Seven Days with the Sea to My Left

Portugal / 2023 / 29' (dual-screen video-installation)

Um grupo de mulheres percorre a Ilha do Pico numa longa caminhada. Durante esta viagem e num ambiente insular apocalíptico, a procura de uma figura perdida mistura-se com questionamentos sobre as suas existências individuais.
A group of women make their way around Pico Island on a long trek. During this journey and in an apocalyptic insular environment, the search for a lost figure mixes with questionings about their individual existences.

directed by Francisca Manuel

argument: Francisca Manuel and Stephanie Ricci
cast: Crista Alfaiate, Rita Cabaço, Cidália Machado, Elisa Muraro, Irina Becker and Paula Nunes

executive producer: Francisca Manuel
coordinating producer and local producer: Gabriela Perdomo and Kate Saragaço-Gomes
production assistant: Simão Pereira and Francisco Melo Bento

photography: Ivo Lopes Araújo
color correction: Pablo Nobrega
image assistant: Juliane Rupar
sound: Adriana Bolito
wardrobe: Rafaela Salgueiro

sound montage: Marcelo Tavares
set-up and editing: Ian Capillé and Francisca Manuel

drivers: João Fontes and Lourenço Vargas

organization: efabula
production support: Miragem
with the support of Câmara Municipal da Madalena; IC – Image Constellation; Clube Naval de S.Roque; Begs & Bags; Casa do Povo da Criação Velha, Café Concerto, O Galeão
with the financial support of República Portuguesa – Direção-Geral das Artes

thanks to: Casa do Xisto – Catarina de Sousa, Stand Outeiro, Tasquinha Requinte, Road Side Cafe, Gonçalo Tocha, Nuno Pereira, Rita Mendes, Adega Lucas Amaral, Silvia Silveira Silva, Marina Diniz, Fernando Silva, Sónia Pires, Jorge Pereira, Annia Hidalgo, Daniel Pena, Elke Brockmann, Oliver Lotz, Sónia Rosa


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Festival Temps d'Image (Lisboa)