Salomé Lamas
2025 | Fiction Feature Film | 77’ | Digital | Color | Portugal
2025 | Fiction Feature Film | 77’ | Digital | Color | Portugal
SINOPSYS
Our first object of investigation and care must be life. We know the reason for this, for we are living beings in a situation where the conditions of life are under threat. What has no place in this ecological discourse is death. The fact that death is difficult to acknowledge is nothing new, but in our contemporary situation, death has taken on a new face.
Our first object of investigation and care must be life. We know the reason for this, for we are living beings in a situation where the conditions of life are under threat. What has no place in this ecological discourse is death. The fact that death is difficult to acknowledge is nothing new, but in our contemporary situation, death has taken on a new face.
Gold and Ashes goes beyond representation to become an intimate act of excavation, aiming to mediate — materially, politically, and metaphysically — the reappropriation of death as a power, and our sovereignty as mortal beings in both the private and social spheres. The film also speculates on the implications of representing trauma and the aesthetics of disappearance.
CREDITS
DIRECTOR: Salomé Lamas
CAST: Luísa Cruz, Margarida Vila-Novo
SCREENPLAY: Salomé Lamas, Isabel Petterman, Isabel Ramos
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Ângela Sequeira
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pedro J. Márquez
SOUND: Miguel Cabral
EDITING: Salomé Lamas, Francisco Moreira, João Martinho
PRODUCERS: Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguillar
CO-PRODUCER & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Catarina de Sousa
PRODUCTION: O Som e a Fúria (PT), Foi Bonita a Festa (PT)
FINANCIAL SUPPORT (ICA): Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual, Creative Europe MEDIA, RTP, FilmaPorto, La Caixa Foundation, Lisbon Film Commission
DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT: FLAD, Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Civitella Ranieri, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Yaddo
DIRECTOR: Salomé Lamas
CAST: Luísa Cruz, Margarida Vila-Novo
SCREENPLAY: Salomé Lamas, Isabel Petterman, Isabel Ramos
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Ângela Sequeira
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pedro J. Márquez
SOUND: Miguel Cabral
EDITING: Salomé Lamas, Francisco Moreira, João Martinho
PRODUCERS: Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguillar
CO-PRODUCER & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Catarina de Sousa
PRODUCTION: O Som e a Fúria (PT), Foi Bonita a Festa (PT)
FINANCIAL SUPPORT (ICA): Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual, Creative Europe MEDIA, RTP, FilmaPorto, La Caixa Foundation, Lisbon Film Commission
DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT: FLAD, Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Civitella Ranieri, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Yaddo
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
[2025 Estreia Mundial] DocLisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema [Portugal]
[2025] Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo [Brasil] [2025] Caminhos do Cinema Português [Portugal]
MUSEUMS & INSTITUTIONS
[2025] E-flux Screening Room [USA]
[2025 Estreia Mundial] DocLisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema [Portugal]
[2025] Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo [Brasil] [2025] Caminhos do Cinema Português [Portugal]
MUSEUMS & INSTITUTIONS
[2025] E-flux Screening Room [USA]