Aurora

Everything started with a dream in which I told my mother that I was going to search for the children brought to life by my paternal grandmother. She was a midwife and faith healer for more than forty years in the remote and arid Sertão Bahia in the northeast of Brazil. Her name was Aurora. The film follows the ghostly presence of Aurora still alive and becoming in their memories and landscapes. During this initiatory journey through this desert region where agribusiness and fundamentalist evangelism have gained much ground, I also encounter the women of my family who will evoke the stories of five other women, ancestors or descendants of Aurora, five ghosts of a family history made of migrations, colonialism, violence, complex racial and gender relations.