The session has the presence of the director and the artistic director of "comedies do Minho" João Pedro Vaz, on 18th of March at 21:30 in the Auditorium of Musical Miragaia.
The documentary of Sofia Marques originated in the filming of the rehearsals of the show "Comedies of Minho" which recreated the story of the legend Deu-la-Deu, the heroin of the village of Minho, Monção, which won the Spanish siege her cunning during the time of Ferdinand Wars in the fourteenth century. During the time spent in Monsoon in 2009, the director also filmed the daily life the village recovering this imaginary almost into disuse. The typographer, the tailor, the brass band, the baking of the bread, the fair, the figures of the procession - filming each face up close. The composite picture is so fresh of the people that tell the tale and discuss their relations with the neighboring Galicia. Imagine the intimate diary of a village surrounded by mountains, almost frozen in time, where the word hurry doesn't exists and where the stories are told in the warmed corner of the fireplace. Come witness this visual portrait of an endangered Portugal.
