LUZ OBSCURA

LUZ OBSCURA

Country/ies
Portugal
Production
Ansgar Schaefer
Editor
Length
76
Original Language
Original language
Status
Completed
Completed in
2017
Eurodoc Participant
Eurodoc Producer
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Year participation
2003
Distribution

How many members of a family get dragged into the web of the political police on the arrest of a single political prisoner? How do you give form to someone who disappeared without having had a historical existence? Taking as its starting point the photographs taken by the Portuguese political police during the Salazar dictatorship and testimonies from those close to an assassinated communist activist, Luz Obscura invents a form that reveals how an authoritarian system operates within the family intimacy and recreates the feeling of a family's broken identity.

Festivals & Awards

2017 • Filmer à tout prix • Bruxelles (Belgique) • Compétition longs métrages internationaux

2017 • États généraux du film documentaire • Lussas (France) • Territoires de la mémoire

2017 • Images en bibliothèques • Paris (France) • Film soutenu par la Commission nationale de sélection des médiathèques

2017 • Cinéma du Réel • Paris (France) • Compétition internationale

Production & financial support