Safira Moreira
Safira MOREIRA is a black woman from Bahia. She directed the short film Travessia in 2017, which screened at several festivals in Brazil and beyond. She worked as Director of Photography for the short film Eu, minha mãe e Wallace (2018, short) by Irmãos Carvalho. She is also the cinematographer for the feature documentary Hixikanwe - Estamos Juntas (2018) by Debora Britto. In 2019, she will write and direct the documentary series Iyas Idanas – Mulheres na Cozinha and the feature documentary Cais.
Filmography
Travessia (2017, short), Iyas Idanas – Mulheres na Cozinha (2019, doc series), Cais (2019, doc)
Safira Moreira at IFFR
Eu, minha mãe e Wallace
The story of a photo of a single mother, an absent father and a child shows the importance of a single image.
22'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
Travessia
An intimate and poetic essay about the photographic memory of black families. Both a critical perspective and tender counternarrative.
5'
Brazil
IFFR 2019