She directed, among other films, Margot (2022), Pedra e Cal (2016), Falamos de António Campos (2010), Nacional 206 (2009), O Arquiteto e a Cidade Velha (2004), Senhora Aparecida (1994) and recently co-directed A Ramadan in Lisbon (2019). Among others, she received the Best Documentary Award at the Recife Ethnographic Film Festival, the Critics Award at the Caminhos do Cinema Português, the Planéte Award at the Bilan du Film Ethnographique, the Excellence Award from the Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Film Festival, USA and the 1st Prize of the VII Rassegna Internazionale di Documentari Etnografici festival. She recently released the book Cinema e Povo, 2022.
Between 1958 and 61, Margot Dias took part in four ethnographic missions to the extreme north of Mozambique, Africa, then a Portuguese colony.
She registered and filmed many hours, compiling unprecedented visual and sound records of the Makonde culture.
This journey changed her life, as if in the encounter of the Other she had found herself again.
It’s the woman…