

5 minutes to break your heart and rebuild your soul.
Direction
Melo turns personal archive into universal ritual.
Cinematography
Images that feel like inherited memory themselves.
Editing
Collage technique mirrors fragmented recollection.
Director
Alessandra Melo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Afro-Brazilian religions like Candomblé and Umbanda have historically faced erasure and persecution; this film participates in urgent cultural preservation.
Visual anthropology as autoethnography—Melo collapses researcher and subject, asking whether academic distance is possible or even desirable when studying family.
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