José Vieira
2021La photo déchirée, chronique d'une émigration clandestine
José Vieira
At the beginning of the 60's, thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground. They were fleeing misery, war and repression. Left to unscrupulous smugglers, they had to cross the Iberian Peninsula tracked by the Portuguese and Spanish police. For many, the voyage towards France turned into a disaster. As a child in a shantytown, the author remembers having heard about these terrible odysseys. Thirty years later, he goes in search of the stories of his childhood and seeks to understand what sparked this unprecedented emigration known as the "plebiscite by foot" against Salazar. Between childhood memories and historical investigation, he looks for the images of this exodus, the largest in post-war Europe.
La photo déchirée, chronique d'une émigration clandestine
Souvenirs d'un futur radieux
José Vieira
The film tells the intertwined story of two slums that were built, forty years apart, on the same territory. In Massy, in the southern suburbs of Paris, we lived at a time of economic growth, full employment and promising future. It was the 60s. We are at the beginning of the 2000s. They dwell in a climate of crisis and exclusion. Most of these are Roma and are fleeing a country that rejects them.
Souvenirs d'un futur radieux
Nous sommes venus
José Vieira
“I was 7 years old when I crossed the border on January 23, 1965, into Hendaye. I have no memory of arriving in France. How can one give an account of an event of which one has no memory, if not by seeking one’s story in that of others?” José Vieira
We Came
