Tarrafal, our new documentary feature will have its world premiere at Porto Post Doc

One day almost everything turned into a pile of rubble and bush. There remained ghosts wandering through the fields, the ruins and the fog. Some of these ghosts are alive.

Tarrafal still
Tarrafal still

They are those who stayed, those who came back, those who roam the difficult memories of the most cursed neighborhood of the city. Only that this Tarrafal, the name of the field of slow death of Salazar's dictatorship, is not  in Cape Verde but in Portugal.

Written and Direction: Pedro Neves / Photography / Pedro Neves: Editing / Pedro Neves e Ricardo Leite/ Sound: Ricardo Leite / Sound Mix and Sound Design: Pedro Adamastor / Music: Jojo Navarro / Graphics: João Borges / Cover Photograph: António Pedrosa / Producer: Pedro Neves / Production: Red Desert / Support: Câmara Municipal do Porto and RTP

+ info: https://www.portopostdoc.com/home/festival/2016/view?id=330

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