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Wawata Topu: Mermaids of Timor-Leste

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Original title: Wawata Topu: Mermaids of Timor-Leste
Year: 2013
Running time: 33 min.
Country: Timor-Leste
Director: David Palazon, Enrique Alonso
Screenwriter: Story: Enrique Alonso
Cast: Documentary, Self: Sara Tilman, Ruth Alves, Angelita Martins, Eunisia Tilman, Esperanca Marcal, Delfina Soares
Cinematography: David Palazon, Nelson Turquel
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: Wawata Topu (women divers) are four generations of fisher-women striving to make a living in the coastal village of Adara, West Atauro, Timor-Leste. Their daily lives, economic practices and vital concerns, as well as the contradicting discourses and social barriers they face, are shown in this ethnographic portrait that makes visible their critical contribution to the household economies and the fishing community at large. Their underwater dancing takes place in a context of rapid social change, where the generalization of the formal education, the progressive consolidation of western moral values and the potential openness of more attractive livelihoods not linked to the sea, seem to be forging a social negotiation of the household economic strategies initiated by the oldest generation during the 50's.

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Wawata Topu: Mermaids of Timor-Leste

2013

David Palazon, Enrique Alonso