Cais
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After her mother’s death, Safira travels through a river route to dive into new perspectives on memory, time, birth, life and death.
Thank you to our screening partners: cinéSPEAK, Lightbox Film Center
Directors Spotlight
Safira Moreira
Director
Safira Moreira is a brazilian black director and Sundance Institute Documentary Film program grantee. She directed the documentary short films Travessia (2017), Nascente (2020), and Alágbedé (2021). Cais, her first feature film, received support from Rumos Itaú, the Avon Women’s Fund, and the Sundance Documentary Fund.
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 69 minutes
- Country
- Brazil
- Language
- Portuguese
- Director
- Safira Moreira
- Producer
- Flávia Santana, Safira Moreira
- Executive Producer
- Flávia Santana
- Cast
- Amani Moreira, Angélica Moreira, Inaê Moreira, Mateus Aleluia, Safira Moreira, Tinganá Santana
- Cinematographer
- Bernard Lessa, Safira Moreira
- Editor
- Tenille Bezerra
- Composer
- Ubiratan Marques
- Sound Design
- Tadeu Mascarenhas
- Music
- Ubiratan Marques
- Premiere
- North America