Title of film : Alma Viva
Director Name : Cristele Alves Meira
Cast & crew :
Producer : Gaelle Mareschi,Pedro Borges,Raquel Morte,Sebastien Delloye
Editor : Pierre Deschamps
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Synopsis : The plot of Alma Viva appears to be a straightforward tale of tradition and modernization set in a small mountain community in Portugal. Salome, a pre-adolescent girl, is caught between two worlds: the magically endowed folk culture of her adored grandmother's home, and the cold materialism that has driven so many people in this impoverished TrasOs Montes region of Portugal to leave for France, where Salome herself grew up. However, the first film by French/Portuguese director Cristele Alves Meira gradually evolves into a ghost story that centres on spirit possession.
Director Bio : Cristèle Alves Meira (born 1 February 1983), who earned a master's degree in theatre in 2005, took part in Robin Renucci's Rencontres Internationales de Theatre. She helped Francois Orson stage George Buchner's Woyzeck with him. She also collaborated on the staging of Richard II with Thierry de Peretti. She directed the Jean Genet drama Les Negres in 2006 and the Suzan-Lori Parks play Venus in 2010.She then went on to direct Som&Morabeza, a documentary about Portuguese-speaking immigrants in Africa, in Cape Verde in 2010. In Born in Luanda, she discusses the social condition of young people in Angola.
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