Keimena: #10 Rabo de Peixe (Fish Tail)
by Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel

FEB
20
11:59 pm
ERT2, Athens

Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel, Rabo de Peixe (Fish Tail), 2015, Portugal, film still

Rabo de Peixe (Fish Tail), 2015, Portugal, 103 min.
Directors: Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel

This film portrays the daily lives, ambitions, and struggles of fishermen in Rabo de Peixe, a traditional fishing village on a small island in the Azores. The starkly realistic depiction of people and places is intercut with moments of underwater reverie, resulting in a deeply personal, poetic style of documentary film.


Keimena, a documenta 14 Film Program on ERT2, airs Mondays at midnight from December 19, 2016 to September 18, 2017. Each film can be viewed during the broadcast and streamed on demand for seven days thereafter. Please note that the films are presented in their original language with Greek subtitles, and can be streamed from within Greece only.

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