"The Daughters of Fire" is the Nervalian nickname that Pedro Costa already gave, at the time of making his film Casa de Lava [1994], to the Cape Verdean women whose faces irradiate the opening of that film, an encounter with a people that set his cinema on its true path: to accompany their destiny, to establish the facts and legends of their misfortune and greatness, and of their betrayal by Portugal and its history. Three daughters, one for each panel of this triptych which lifts Pedro Costa’s cinema back to a very ancient art form, that of churches and altarpieces.
The film is screened before It's Not Me by Leos Carax
