Synopsis
QUIRINO, 77, has lived for more than 30 years in an abandoned village in Cabo Verde, at the bottom of a deep valley, between the sea and the mountains. OMI NOBU explores Man’s intimate relationship with Time; the contrast between the frozen time of an abandoned village and that of man confronts us with our own mortal condition. Quirino’s story is also a confrontation between tradition and modernity, between Man’s attachment to the Earth and his relationship with Nature.
Festivals
50 festival selections and some fifteen awards among others:
FESPACO (2023) Golden Stallion Award for Best Feature Documentary
IDFA – Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023) Luminous section
Hot Docs – Toronto – Canada (2024) Honorable Mention of the Jury
RIDM – Montreal, Canada (2024) International Competition
FIDADOC – Agadir, Morocco (2024) Best First Feature Award
Biografie van de regisseur
Yuri Ceuninck was born in 1976 in Santo Antão, Cape Verde. He studied art history and foreign languages in Belgium, before moving to the United States to study anthropology. He obtained a degree in cinema at the EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television) in Cuba, specialising in documentary filmmaking. Yuri is an alumni of the Hot Docs Blue Ice Group, EFM DocSalon Toolbox program (Berlinale) and SDI (Scottish Documentary Institute) Connecting Sto-ries program.
Selective filmography:
The Master’s Plan (2021), documentary feature
Dona Mónica (2020), short documentary
To Beef or Not to Beef, That’s the Question on the Isle of Mú (2004), short documentary
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