Sortes (2021) [N/A]
Featuring:
Eulálio Alves, Francisco Bica, Maria da Saúde
Written by:
Mónica Martins Nunes
Directed by:
Mónica Martins Nunes
Release Date:
July 16, 2021
Original Title:
Sortes
Genres:
Documentary
Production Countries:
Germany | Portugal
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 38
Beneath the harvest sun and the cicada song, Mónica Martins Nunes builds a touching portrait of Serra de Serpa, an arid region in the south of Portugal affected by rural exodus. The poems sung by the shepherds and market traders resonate like the last gesture of a human landscape which resists sinking into oblivion.
An old house falls slowly to the ground. To the same earth with which its walls were once made with. And without protesting, the house becomes soil again. Pretending it had not seen countless people plowing, seeding, harvesting, kneading and eating, every nine years the cork harvesting; not heard the poetry and the stories; as if it had not witnessed droughts and people leaving in search for a better life. Sortes follows the life of the resisting inhabitants and their animals scattered around Serra de Serpa in the Alentejo region, Portugal. And through the voices of the remaining popular poets becomes a portrait of those who are still there and a requiem for those who are not.
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