Bay of All Saints (2012)

Filmed over six years Annie Eastmans debut is a lyrical portrait of three women who live on the palafitas or shacks built on stilts in the biggest bay in Bahia Brazil As the government threatens to reclaim the land for ecological reasons generations of families most of them single mothers will be displaced With Narato the neighborhood refrigerator repairman as our guide we meet Geni Jesus and Dona Maria women with different mindsets but all compelledin their own wayto fight for their familys future and survival amidst the states urban development blunders and broken promises