The first Portuguese woman director rises from archives to reclaim her stolen spotlight.
An introduction to cinema made by Portuguese-speaking women, narrated by a fictionalized Bárbara Virgínia, the first Portuguese woman director.
Direction
Sequeira collapses documentary and ghost story effortlessly.
Acting
Joana Linda channels Virgínia with uncanny, fragile presence.
Editing
Archival gaps become emotional negative space.
Director
Luísa Sequeira
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bárbara Virgínia's 1946 film 'Três Dias Sem Deus' was rediscovered in 2019 after decades presumed lost.
Portuguese fascist censorship systematically destroyed women's film archives; this documentary performs archaeology on deliberate absence.
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