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Cinema: Ama-San by Cláudia Varejão
4:36 CAT | 7 March 2019
Cinema: Ama-San by Cláudia Varejão
Date and Time: Monday, March 18 2019 at 19h00
Entrance: Free
Duration: 112 minutes
Address: Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Av. Samora Machel no. 468, Maputo
About Ama-San
The Ama-San - the women of the sea - are diving since 2000 years in Japan for all sorts of seafood. Most of them are between 50 and 85 years old. What they do, calls into question not only the traditional role of women in oriental society, but also the very nature of femininity itself. The film follows the everyday lives of three women of different ages who, for 30 years, have dived together in the sea around a small fishing village on the Shima peninsular. Shot between the silent, underwater world and rural life on land, this film is a unique portrait of a tradition that is not expected to survive much longer.
About Cláudia Varejão
Cláudia Varejão was born in Porto, Portugal and studied film in the Artistic Creativity and Creation Program offered by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, alongside the German Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin, and in São Paulo’s International Film Academy. She also studied photography at AR.CO, in Lisbon. She directed the documentary short film Wanting and the fictional short film trilogy Weekend, Cold Day, and Morning Light. In the Darkness of the Theater I Take off My Shoes is her first feature film. Besides working as a director, she has carved a path in photography.
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