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TALES ON OBLIVION

CONTOS DO ESQUECIMENTO

By Dulce FERNANDES

UKBAR FILMES - as PROD

Historical - Post-Production 2020

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Historical, Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- PORTUGAL
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Dulce FERNANDES
- Producer(s)
- Pandora DA CUNHA TELLES (UKBAR FILMES), Pablo IRAOLA (UKBAR FILMES)
- Synopsis
- Recent archaeological findings during a construction
  of an underground parking garage in Lagos, southern Portugal, have unearthed the buried skeletons of 158 enslaved people, dating as far back as the XV century. More than 12 million people were dragged out from Africa to the Americas, but this fact has been almost forgotten and replaced by a narrative celebrating a glourious maritime past. Tales on Oblivion will focus on different memorialization projects in the margins of the Atlantic as starting points to reflect on the construction
  of memory and collective forgetting, concerning the role of Portugal in the transatlantic of enslaved people
  accross the Atlantics, as well as its contemporary consequences.