Ama-san.
Directed by Cláudia Varejão. Portugal, 2016, 112 minutes.
The film premiered in Spain at Play Doc, where it won the first prize for best documentary awarded by the jury, according to the published report "for the creation of an impeccable work, without superfluous or editorialising images".
The documentary tells the story of Matsumi, Mayumi and Masumi, three women who dive every day in Wagu, a small fishing village on the Japanese peninsula of Ise, to pull the abalone from the rocks. The Ama-San have been diving for more than 2,000 years.
Portuguese