2023 | Brazil | Documentary

Comida de vós (Grandmas' food)

  • Portuguese 15 mins
  • Director | Luisa Macedo Dos Santos
  • Writer | Luisa Macedo Dos Santos
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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In 2020, the documentary's director had access to the belongings of her maternal grandmother, Zizi, who had just passed away at the age of 95. Among her belongings was a notebook of recipes. Luisa tried to find out if her paternal grandmother, Lourdes, also kept a recipe book and discovered that she did not. To decipher why, Luisa goes to Lourdes herself. 

The film is then structured around these two parallel narrative lines, which alternate in the editing as the director searches for the written and unwritten words of her two grandmothers' memories.

Food Memory Inequality Gender Heritage Legacy
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