Screening: Fire of Wind (2024) w/ Director Q&A

DCP| 2024| Marta Mateus| Portugal, Switzerland, France| 74 min| Portuguese with English subtitles

Free admission. No registration equired.

The vine has borne fruit, and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter.

Marta Mateus’s fascinating debut feature film, shot in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, blends the border between documentary realism and myth, visual and oral storytelling, memory, and history. Focusing on a community of female agricultural workers and the stories they tell, the film points to alternative ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.

The screening will be followed by a discussion and a Q&A session with the director and Oksana Chefranova (Film and Media Studies).

Sponsored by Yale Film and Media Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Cinécritures