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'What House Are You From?': A daughter's take on her mother's exile from civil war in Spain

Portuguese-Spanish film director and artist Ana Pérez-Quiroga focuses on her mother's memories in her documentary, 'What House Are You From? The film delves into the life of Angelita who was taken from Spain to the then Soviet Union at the age of four, during the civil war.

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00:01Where are you from? This is the question posed by visual artist and filmmaker Ana Pérez Quiroga,
00:08whose name lends itself to the documentary that centers on her mother.
00:14Taken from Spain to the Soviet Union as a child, as a refugee from the Spanish Civil War,
00:19she ended up escaping one war only to face another, World War II.
00:24Separated from her family and her homeland, she only returned to Spain as an adult after Stalin's death.
00:33Fala pouco, mas quando fala, nunca, desde que me lembro, nunca nos passou uma ideia que isto fosse um trauma.
00:44Antes, pelo contrário. Eu sempre senti que era até uma aventura.
00:52E eu falo disso no filme. Eu sempre achei que aquilo era uma grande aventura.
00:58The passage of time, the mother-daughter relationship, and the sense of belonging to the various places
01:04and cultures Ana's mother experienced are themes that run throughout the film.
01:13The grape harvests at the family home serve as a metaphor here.
01:21O filme fala de uma coisa que é o tempo.
01:25E por isso nós filmámos duas Vindimas, dois anos seguidos de Vindimas.
01:30E esse tempo cronológico interessa-me, que se perceba que o filme tem a ver com essa ideia de tempo.
01:36Mas também tem a ideia que está subjacente, que é também a fratura.
01:41A quem pertencemos e em termos de identidade.
01:47De que casa eres?
01:50De que casa és?
01:51At the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival last year,
01:55and hits screens in several Portuguese cities this Thursday, April the 16th.
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