Private Project

Coming and Going

Abroad at the time of her death, a grandson returns to revisit the house of his late grandmother, now occupied by another family. A reflection on the love for a home where one grew up and yet made by a grandmother missing another life, in another house, in another country.

  • Tomás Ferreira
    Director
    Fate (Short Fiction); Away in Silence (Short Fiction); In a House, At Night (Short Fiction)
  • Tomás Ferreira
    Writer
  • Tomás Ferreira
    Producer
  • Tomás Ferreira
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Idas e Vindas
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 25, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Portugal
  • Country of Filming:
    Portugal
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    HD Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Wicked Wales International Youth Film Festival

    United Kingdom
    September 24, 2023
    Best Short Documentary Award
Director Biography - Tomás Ferreira

Graduate from Lisbon Theater and Film School (Screenwriting & Editing) and with a completed MA in Film Directing from the University of South Wales, Tomás is a Portuguese filmmaker who has been developing his writing skills and reflective process over different projects in order to best understand his storytelling voice before directing his own work, inclined to minimalist film making and thought provoking stories.

Recently, he has directed four shorts films. Among them, a 2020 documentary promoted by a Portuguese film critic and a fiction drama, "Away in Silence" (2021), screened publicly at Cardiff Chapter Arts Center. He was also involved in aiding the writing development of a short film accepted for a creative supporting program at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

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Director Statement

In the beginning of my year abroad dedicated to my Masters in Film, I got to know from my father that my grandmother had passed away. The funeral was held while I mourned alone. Coming back to Portugal after my studies, this longing felt unprocessed. As I passed by her house, her last physical connection to me, and saw it belonged to someone else, I felt as if a cruel theft had been done to me, even if irrational to feel it. This I found interesting to explore.

Thus, this documentary is an expression of these feelings and how the meaning of a place changes over time and for different people, affecting us deeply. I wanted to show the longing for my grandmother’s house as I knew it against how the person who actually made it what it was, missed another home. All of it through the gesture of coming and going through different landscapes of time and place to transform that house’s meaning and ultimately reflect on what it contains: mine and the spectator’s emotional experience of our dear ones’ ephemerality.