Crossing

In an intimate and poetic visual essay, Travessia searches for photographic records of black families. While exploring personal histories, the film gradually adopts a critical stance regarding the stigmatization and near absence of portrayals of black people. Finally affecting us with a tender visual counter-narrative of what remained unseen.Safira MOREIRA is a black woman from Bahia. She directed the short film Travessia in 2017, which screened at several festivals in Brazil and beyond. She worked as Director of Photography for the short film Eu, minha mãe e Wallace (2018, short) by Irmãos Carvalho. She is also the cinematographer for the feature documentary Hixikanwe - Estamos Juntas (2018) by Debora Britto. In 2019, she will write and direct the documentary series Iyas Idanas – Mulheres na Cozinha and the feature documentary Cais.