Triggered by the disease of her father, the Afro-Brazilian directress Denize Galiao explores her deepest feelings for her home and her roots, which she does not want to lose after twenty years of living in Germany. The word Saudade which cannot be translated into any other language is the red line through the story of a family that lives between two different cultures.
Denize Galiao
Denize Galiao is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker and editor based in Brazil and Germany. Born in 1980 in Porto Alegre and emigrated in 1998 to Germany she has been working as an editor for several TV shows, documentaries, and short films. Denize also studied documentary filmmaking in one of the most important film schools in Europe, the HFF Munich. Her films have been screened and awarded at several international film festivals around the world. Her most recent work, her graduation film Saudade won in 2019 the award for the best student documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and was shown at many more film festivals worldwide.