A man recalls his mother. She used to tell him about a mythical place, the beach. In Soft Sea, the bath man would immerse the children in the waves amid screams and laughter, lace and swimsuits were in fashion, and people asked the sea to make them live forever. Meanwhile, the photographer walked along the sand, attempting to capture a society on the brink of decay.
Sara N. Santos (1992) is a portuguese filmmaker. She earned a degree in Documentary Cinema from ESTA-IPT in 2013 and completed a Master's in Audiovisual Communication at ESMAD-IPP in 2018. Her films explore themes such as Memory, Archive, and Fiction. SABA (2014) won the PrimeirOlhar award at Encontros de Cinema de Viana. Just Like the Films (2020) was screened at various national and international festivals and won Best Student Experimental Short Film at Porto Femme. In addition to directing, she also works in film editing, with credits including To Sea the Sea (2018), Home Sweet School (2019), The Sand Spell (2024), among others. She has been teaching at ESMAD | P.PORTO since 2023.
