I make documentary films about how things are passed on. A grape harvest in the Douro, my grandmother describing her wedding, a folk group rehearsing near Paris, a bilingual theatre company forty years on stage. What draws me is what people keep doing when nobody is asking them to, and what quietly changes in the keeping.

Filming alone has been at the heart of my practice since my first short film, in 2015. A small camera lets me blend into a room and become almost invisible. I hold it at the height of the hands rather than the faces, at the height of what is working. Staying for months rather than hours is what opens the moments an interview never reaches.


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No Meu Tempo, O Casamento -  In My (Wedding) Day


DOC - 14 min - 2024


CREDITS

Director & Producer:
Ana Isabel Freitas

Key Cast:
Teresa Pinto, Isménia Araújo

Original Soundtrack:
Bob Cross
SPECIFICATIONS

Type:
Documentary, Experimental, Short

Runtime:
14 min | Year: 2024

Language:
Portuguese | Country : Portugal

Format:
Digital | Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Student Project:
Documentary Film Course – KINO-DOC


AWARDS & SCREENINGS


Awaiting its first screening.





Director’s Statement:


No Meu Tempo, o Casamento unfolds from a simple question I asked my grandmothers as I prepared for my own wedding: how was your wedding day?


From this question emerged two distinct recollections — Teresa, 85, remembers every detail; Isménia, 90, searches her memory through fog. One keeps her wedding alive through precise gestures; the other holds only a photograph, now fading.


In this film, their voices weave through images of hands at work, of fabrics being handled, sewn, touched. I sew, my grandmother Teresa sews — our gestures echo across generations, quiet and persistent. The film follows a clear narrative thread through their words and recollections, yet the visual language — of sewing, of textures, of pauses — remains open, suggestive, unexplained. A short video from my parents’ wedding appears briefly, as does a fleeting glimpse of my own.


No Meu Tempo, o Casamento is not a film about marriage, but about what is inherited and what is left unsaid. It is about the delicate transmissions between women — through fabric, voice, ritual, and memory. In what they remember, and in what they forget, my grandmothers hand me something I cannot name, but which I try to hold in images, in silence, and in thread.



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