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Zizi (ou oração da jaca fabulosa)
Zizi (or Praying to a Fabulous Tree)
Zizi (ou oração da jaca fabulosa) is a fabular documentary based on memories of the suburban backyard where the director spent part of his childhood, before growing up in the big city and becoming a filmmaker. It tells the story of Dona Zizi, a woman of mixed Indigenous and Black background, who becomes the leader of this small territory after marrying a mysterious and silent blue-eyed man of unknown origins.
Mixing photos, documentary images, and scenes staged for the camera, the filmmaker directs himself and his family in a reflection on the passage of time, the colonial wounds still present in the family, and fragments of his first films as a director – which were filmed there, on that ground of affections and ghosts, and where the figure of a large tree symbolized a perhaps impossible eternity.
