original title: Tales of Minho / 2025 / 4k / 28 min / Portugal
director: Petr Chromčák, Radek Ševčík
dop, editor, colorist: Petr Chromčák
sound recordist and main star: Vojtěch Javůrek
sound post-production: Pavol Guman
producer: MDOC
synopsis:
An emigrant musician can’t recall the stories of his birthplace. A mother keeps the restaurant open, hoping her son returns. A cowboy wonders what’ll become of his cows. A widow cares for a chapel no one visits. And the oldest woman remembers everything—especially that—Estantegas. Under the burning sun, a strange figure roams the empty landscape of Portugal’s Minho with a boom pole, meeting the remaining inhabitants and capturing their memories on a sound recorder. An ethnographic ghost documentary, with warmth and a gently comic touch, about a future of a place that belongs to the past.
festivals:
11th Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival, Portugal
