Gisele Omindarewa
Brazil. 2009. Dir.: Clarice E. Peixoto. Digital projection. 71 min. Documentary on Candomblé.
Original Portuguese version with French subtitles
November 27th at 3:15pm
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Gisele Cossard Omindarewa, 86, is French and the holy mother of Candomblé in Rio de Janeiro. Coming from the Parisian bourgeoisie (military father and teacher mother a concert pianist), she has lived for many years in the Baixada Fluminense. The film tries to reconstruct its history through the memories of her childhood and youth, from her participation in the French resistance along with her father, from her African life as the wife of a diplomat, of her initiation into Candomblé in the 1960s, and especially her role as the holy mother of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Rio de Janeiro. These are times of the individual history that intersect with the collective and religious life.


Director: Clarice E. Peixoto | Editor: Sueli Nascimento | Sound: Clarisse Rath | Executive Producer: Sueli Nascimento | Production Companies: CTE-SR3-UERJ; INARRA-Imagens, Narrativas e Práticas Culturais/CNPQ-UERJ, DaTerra Produtos Culturais

Awards and festivals:
III Ethnographic Film Festival, Recife, Brazil:
Best Documentary

IIIe BAFF (Film Festival Afro Bahia), Brazil:
Award for best editing - Sueli Nascimento


Director’s Biography:

Clarice Ehlers Peixoto has lived in France for a long time. An anthropologist by profession, she now works in Brazil in the group of research and studies contemporary families, at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).