In pursuit of ghosts and evil spirits, director Maria Pinto reinvents the paternity suit brought by Joao, her father, against the Dentist in Salazar's Portugal. A cross between fact and fiction, a celebration of family memory.
Maria Pinto was born in Portugal and went to France, Normandy, at the age of 7. She graduated in Plastic Arts from the University of Paris VIII and in Modern Literature from the University of Rouen. She has worked as a translator, art history teacher and educational adviser. In 2005, she made her first film, Explication des Salamandres, which already revealed her taste for the visual balance between fiction and documentary, and the theme of exile that runs throughout her work. Un ciel à part (A Separate Sky) in 2008 accentuates her work on Portuguese exiles and their ‘saudade’.
