Paraíso
Portugal, France2021documentary85'Międzynarodowy konkurs DocFilmMusic (2022)
For a long time, in the gardens of the former Presidential Palace in Rio de Janeiro, older people have been meeting at dusk to sing love songs, accompanied by instruments. They perform them solo, in duets or as a group. The director filmed their performances and everyday life filled with passion and the need of closeness. The film, intended as a return to his homeland after many years, turned out to be his symbolic farewell. The beautiful world we can see in the screen will soon be gone, as the coronavirus pandemic breaks out.
- directed by
- Sergio Tréfaut
Director, producer and journalist. He was born in Brazil in 1965. A graduate of Philosophy at the Sorbonne, he started his career in Lisbon as a journalist and soon became a producer and director. His award-winning documentaries Outro País (1999), Lisboetas (2005), The City of the Dead (2009) and Alentejo, Alentejo (2014) have been screened in over 50 countries and distributed in cinemas. Sérgio was the director of Doclisboa and the president of the Portuguese Documentary Association.
- cinematography
- Léo Bittencourt, Luís Abramo, Camila Freitas, Carlos Baptista
- script
- Sergio Tréfaut
- editing
- Sergio Tréfaut, Bianca Oliveira, Mário Espada
- production
- Laire Dornoy, Serge Lalou (Les Films d'Ici), Sergio Tréfaut (Faux)
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