A ghostly oratório from Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa, The Daughters of Fire features a widescreen triptych image of three Cape Verdean women singers, with their separate expressionistic spaces conjoined by a plaintive, haunting song overlapping like a disruptive musical.

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Wavelengths, TIFF '23

The Daughters of Fire

Pedro Costa

Playing as part of Wavelengths 3: Outlines - Akerman/Costa/Godard

Screenings

Sun Sep 10

TIFF Bell Lightbox 4

Regular
8:00pm