Exibição Exhibition

Casa do Cinema de Coimbra
07 nov., 21:45

Origem Origin

País de Origem Origin Country Portugal
País de Rodagem Filming Country Ethiopia

Metragem e Género Footage and Genre

Duração Runtime 13’0”

Tipo de Projecto Project Type Documentary, Experimental, Short
Género Genre
Língua Language Amharic

Timkat

Sinopse Original Original Sinopsis

TIMKAT é uma celebração para comemorar o baptismo de Cristo, no rio Jordão, com o objectivo de salvar toda a humanidade. “Os que não forem baptizados todos os anos não poderão alcançar o reino dos céus”.

Sinopse Internacional Sinopsis

“TIMKAT is a celebration to commemorate the baptism of Christ in the river Jordan in order to save all mankind. “The ones who are not baptized every year will not be able to reach the kingdom of heaven.”

Mensagem do Realizador Director Statement
In 2019 I went to Ethiopia in search of the script for a feature film. Coincidentally I found myself in the city of Gondar at the time that Timkat (the Baptism) was celebrated. I had a Super 8 film camera on me and ten reels of two and a half minutes each. I was not prepared for anything, certainly not prepared to shoot the Timkat. My priority was the other film. But as I got closer to the date when the celebration was going to take place, I also became aware of its importance, which was much greater than I had suspected. And when I found myself surrounded by this sea of people, I started filming. I was no longer interested in Timkat, but in those people who live it, in each of those faces the camera fleetingly frames throughout the film and that thus build the mosaic of a society, of a people with an history that is still impenetrable to me.