Desenterro / Unburial
2020, 8 minutes
Short documentary about the collective grief shared by a community that loses its town for a dam.
When a dam floods a town in Brazil's semidesert, people are obliged to leave their houses and dig up their relatives in the cemetery. Years later a merciless drought dries the lake formed by the dam, and the ruins of the town reappear as an unburied dead, drowning the residents, now, with nostalgia