Their bodies are here, in Portugal, but their hearts are still there, in the land they were forced to abandon: the painful story of a group of people with refugee status. The documentary "My heart is there, my body is here" - a co-production of UC and Cooperativa Propella, shot in Coimbra and directed by Pedro Cruz and João Doce - will be screened at the Festival Política and will be available online, free of charge, on the 26th of April at https://www.teachmi.eu/.
In this documentary, the focus is on the stories - past, present and future - of people with refugee status, about whom often the rest of society does not know. The protagonists of the documentary were involved in the European project TEACHmi, which was developed by a consortium integrated by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the UC (FPCEUC), and which aimed to provide effective tools, teaching materials and guidelines to help the integration of students from migrant backgrounds in schools, making the school environment more inclusive".
"The documentary shows the most important faces and voices of these projects. Faces and voices that are not normally seen or heard in social and scientific intervention. They humanise the numbers and theoretical concepts in real young people who are right here, next to us, in Coimbra. Humanising science is fundamental and the use of documentaries has an undeniable power" adds Clara Cruz Santos, coordinator of the Portuguese TEACHmi project team and professor at FPCEUC.
"The film relies above all on the extreme generosity of these people, who agreed to tell their stories, thus giving a real view and a voice to a subject that has never disappeared, but is going through waves of media coverage, as we are witnessing again in 2022," say João Doce (social observer and musician) and Pedro Cruz (filmmaker and psychologist), both founders of the Cooperativa Propella, which co-produced the documentary with the University of Coimbra.
Watch the trailer here.
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