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Ghost Children, presents seven reminiscences of early childhood, read in seven different voices, as the camera presses close against the faded dye and exaggerated grain of family photographs from the early 1980s. Whose faces and memories are those The film encourages the audience to interrogate assumptions about gender, memory, performance, and death.

Joao Vieira Torres is a Brasilian-French artist/filmmaker, born in Recife, Brazil. Lives and works in between Brazil and France . He has shown his work among other places at: New York Film Festival 2016(US) / Kinoforum Sao Paulo (BR) / Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) / Uniondocs New York (US) / Art of the Real Lincoln Center (US) / Ann Harbor Film Fest (US) / FIDMarseille(FR) / Olhar de Cinema (BR) / Rencontres Int. du Documentaire de Montreal (CA) / Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (FR/DE) / Museu da Imagem e do som de Sao Paulo (BR) / Anthology Film Archives(US) / CentrePompidou(FR) / Palais de Tokyo (FR) / MIS Sao Paulo (BR) / LABoral (ESP) / IndieLisboa(PT) / Tampere Short Film Fest (FI) / Vilnius CAC(LT) / Alexandrina Arts Center (EG)’