Directed by
Catarina Mourão
year
1998
Duration
93 minutes
Synopsis
Thirty-five years after it’s independence from the Portuguese colonial rule, Goa is definitely a state of many contrasts. Together with a strong migrating Hindu population, there is still a Portuguese speaking minority which seems somewhat frozen in nostalgia and kept in a strange time limbo. Aida, the Lady of Chandor, lives alone in Goa. At 82 years of age she devotes each day to caring for her beautiful old house, a house which has survived three centuries of Portuguese colonial rule. Without the Lady of Chandor the house will die. Without the house Aida would loose her reason for living. But inside this house time moves in a magical way and both the house and the Lady of Chandor seem immortal.
crew
Script Catarina Mourão
Photography João Ribeiro
Sound Armanda Carvalho
Editing Pedro Mateus Duarte e Catarina Mourão
Production Pedro Correia Martins
Awards
1998 Melhor obra Documental Prémio António Reis - Encontros Internacionais de Cinema Documental da Malaposta
1998 Menção Honrosa da Federação Nacional de Cineclubes
1998 Prémio de revelação “Prémio Aurélio Paz dos Reis”, Ministério da Cultura/ICAM
1999 Prémio de “Best Script” (Melhor Argumento) - 8o Festival Internacional de Filme Etnográfico de Belgrado
Festivals and exhibitions
1998 IX Encontros Internacionais de Cinema Documental da Malaposta
1999 Festival de Cinema de Turim
1999 Festival Internacional de Cinema de Bucareste
1999 Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cabo Verde
1999 8o Festival Internacional de Filme Etnográfico de Belgrado
1999 Museu Nacional de Etnologia
1999 Cinemateca Portuguesa no ciclo O Novo Documentário
1999 Teatro Rivoli
1999 Bienal de arte da Maia
2000 Festival Internacional de Filme Etnográfico de Gottingen
2000 Auditório da FNAC do Chiado [Portugal] [2014] Ciclo Cinemagosto Film Fokus
2002 Festival International du Nouveau Cinema et des nouveaux medias
2019 Escola das Gaivotas
2019 Festival Periferias
2019 Cinema Paraíso de Macau
2019 Cinema Monumental
