João Salaviza
João Salaviza (1984) studied Cinema at the Lisbon Theater and Film School and the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. His first short film Arena was awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes (2009), followed by the Golden Bear for Short Films at the Berlinale for Rafa (2012). His first feature film, Mountain (2015), had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival (Critics Week). Since then, he has lived between Portugal and Brazil with the Krahô indigenous people. In 2018, The Dead and the Others (co-directed with Renée Nader Messora) premiered at Cannes Film Festival, receiving the Special Jury Prize – Un Certain Regard. In 2023, he returned to Cannes to premiere The Buiriti Flower, co-directed with Renée Nader Messora.
Join Ilona Jurkonytė, curator of the programme Ultramarine: The Sea as Political Space and Artistic Director of the Kaunas International Film Festival, Lithuania, for an informal discussion.
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A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in
her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like
these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San, that literally translates “women of the sea”.
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An essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders offers a series of vignettes, poetically guided by the filmmaker’s curious eye and personal reflections. Through the people she encounters along the way, the film dissects the experience of asylum seekers in Cyprus : A PLO activist and exile from Iraq is denied asylum within 15 minutes; neo-nazi fundamentalists roam the streets in an attack on Muslim migrants; activists and academics organize an antifascist rally and clash with the neo-nazis; 195 migrants drown in the Mediterranean.
