Tchau Tchau

by Cristèle Alves Meira

France
2021
18 min
OV French, Portuguese - French subtitles
Short film
Fiction
Color
DCP

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In competition 2021

Official synopsis

As the pandemic forbade people to bury the dead together, a little girl separated from her grandfather invented a way to bid him farewell.

The programmer’s eye

Frontal proximity is first imposed, through interposed screens, in the complicit relationship between an old man and his granddaughter. Documentary in appearance, the film masterfully slips into fiction and plays on the porosity between the two, simultaneously questioning our desire to penetrate the lives of others. This hybrid short film narrates, through silences, the time of memory and nostalgia, of a mourning that one shapes on their own, alone in the territory of childhood, to survive a world from which one struggles to make sense of. — Laura Pertuy

Biography and Filmography

A trained actress, Cristèle Alves Meira started off as a theatre director. Shot in Cape Verde, her first documentary, “Som & Morabeza” (2007) examined the issue of immigration in Portuguese-speaking areas of Africa through the theme of music. She then looked at Angolan youth to try and show their social reality in “Born in Luanda” (2010), before directing two short fiction films: “Sol Branco” (2014) and “Campo de Víboras” (2016). Cristèle Alves Meira shot “Tchau-Tchau” in 2020, her latest short film, selected at the FIFIB in Bordeaux (Best Short Film Award), in Clermont-Ferrand and at Côté Court Pantin. “Alma Viva” (2022) is her first feature film.

 

2022 : ALMA VIVA - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter 

2020 : TCHAU-TCHAU (SHORT) - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2019 : INVISÍVEL HERÓI (SHORT) - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2016 : CAMPO DE VÍBORAS (SHORT) - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2014 : SOL BRANCO (SHORT) - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2010 : BORN IN LUANDA - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2007 : SOM & MORABEZA - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

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by Cristèle Alves Meira

A trained actress, Cristèle Alves Meira started off as a theatre director. Shot in Cape Verde, her first documentary, “Som & Morabeza” (2007) examined the issue of immigration in Portuguese-speaking areas of Africa through the theme of music. She then looked at Angolan youth to try and show their social reality in “Born in Luanda” (2010), before directing two short fiction films: “Sol Branco” (2014) and “Campo de Víboras” (2016). Cristèle Alves Meira shot “Tchau-Tchau” in 2020, her latest short film, selected at the FIFIB in Bordeaux (Best Short Film Award), in Clermont-Ferrand and at Côté Court Pantin. “Alma Viva” (2022) is her first feature film.

 

2022 : ALMA VIVA - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter 

2020 : TCHAU-TCHAU (SHORT) - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2019 : INVISÍVEL HERÓI (SHORT) - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2016 : CAMPO DE VÍBORAS (SHORT) - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2014 : SOL BRANCO (SHORT) - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2010 : BORN IN LUANDA - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter

2007 : SOM & MORABEZA - Cristèle Alves Meira - Director and Screenwriter