21 minutes that'll make you cry about a stone wall and reconsider your entire relationship with time.
“Behind time, time comes” interlaced with folk songs, narrates the rhythms of rural life, where time and its weight, shape and define the landscape, as well as the lives that compose it. Accompanying the reminiscences of a group of women from the parish of Dornelas, Sever do Vouga, Portugal.
Direction
Patient observation that trusts women's voices without exploitation.
Sound
Folk songs as living memory, not performance.
Director
Rita Barroso
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sever do Vouga sits in Portugal's interior, where rural depopulation has accelerated dramatically—this parish's women are archival witnesses to a vanishing way of life.
The title's Portuguese wordplay ('Atrás do tempo, o tempo vem') suggests time arrives from behind—past catching present—mirroring how the film's structure lets ancestral song interrupt contemporary landscape.
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