A Mãe e o mar

In the coastal town of Vila Chã, Portugal, they say the women were the ones who went to sea to fish. Where once there was a fleet of 120 handmade fishing boats, today there are only eight, and Gloria, the community’s only fisherwoman, is the last of the fabled brave seafaring women. After Corvo Island in It’s the Earth Not the Moon, Gonçalo Tocha embarks on another exploration of the collective memory of a place, with a unique approach combining ethnographic observation, the poetry of imagination and personal observations. Rather than trying to stifle his subjectivity, Tocha shares his impressions and includes himself and his crew in the landscape he is filming. By immersing himself in the place, he breathes life and dignity into a disappearing legend.

Na senda de um mito real e perdido no lugar da praia de Vila Chã, procuramos as mulheres do mar chamadas "pescadeiras", num dos poucos lugares do mundo com mulheres arrais. Mas onde estão elas? E onde estão os 120 barcos de pesca artesanal? Sobram 9 barcos e uma única mulher pescadeira. Em terra de brava gente do mar, filma-se a paixão da pesca, a paixão do mar.