Source: http://planetinfocus.org/festival/my-village-doesnt-live-here-anymore
“I was born beneath this water; I was ten years old when it happened,” says the young narrator.
A village condemned to disappear beneath the rising waters. Voices filled with emotion. Piece by piece their lives are broken down and relocated. All that remains are their memories.
It’s a common fact that people will move at some point in their life. But what happens when a village needs to be relocated and what has caused this momentous decision?
The village is Luz- in Portugal. It had to be relocated because of the construction of the Alqueva dam. Over the course of 6 years the filmmakers documented those most affected by this emotional process.
Catarina Novrao has earned a BA in Law and received a postgraduate Diploma in Film and Television at the University of Bristol. In 2000 together with Catarina Alves Costa, Catarina launched the production company Laranja Azul where she works as Producer/Directors of Creative Documentaries. In 2002 she wrote here dissertation in Film with Commendation, “I spy with my little eye something beginning with W….In search of Women in Portuguese Fascist archive footage of the 30’s and 40’s” supervised by Dr. Jacqueline Mainegard at the Department of Film and Television, University of Bristol.
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