Avozinha
2026 · 2m
Directed by Lucie goujon
Genres: documentary, family
Tones: contemplative, tender
A granddaughter films a snowy weekend spent with her grandmother, capturing moments she wants to keep forever, and decides to make them into a film.
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A granddaughter-filmmaker preserving her grandmother in snow—it's the kind of sincere, domestic gesture that usually makes me roll my eyes, except Goujon refuses to sentimentalize it, and that restraint becomes its own quiet provocation.
Goujon works squarely in the essay-film tradition of intimate observation, where the act of filming becomes the subject itself; the formal clarity of a two-minute sprint through quotidian moments recalls the economy of Agnès Varda's late work.
The decision to let the granddaughter's *choice* to film—not the footage itself, but the deliberate framing of 'moments I want to keep'—carry the entire emotional weight is what makes this work: it's about memory-making as an act of love, executed with almost no embellishment.