Maria arrived in France for the death of her father in the Parisian suburbs, in 1989. For the sake of integration, she and her family will spend much time in Portugal, a country which reminds them of their own.
Collage, Linda & The Tower of La Cité Du Clos St Lazare, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, 2018.
"The Denial I - Family Portrait" is a dreamlike timeless docu-fiction series based on Alexia Fiasco mysterious family story. As a young black daughter of immigrant, she grew up in denial of her roots in pursuit of integration and with very little knowledge of her family history.
Her father abandoned The Cabo Verde Islands at the young age of 13 and never returned. Alexia would discover the country for the first time by herself in 2017. She traveled to the islands in search of her father's past to find answers.
She returned from her trip only with more questions and pictures from a family album she never founds.