Tiburon Film Society will present Heaven's Mirror: A Portuguese Voyage at a free screening on Feb. 4, at 2100 Bridgeway in Sausalito.
With Ana Moura, Camané, Mafalda Arnauth, Carlos do Carmo, and Helder Moutinho in the cast, Joshua Dylan Mellars' film is all about fado, Portugal's haunting folk music with its salient longing or "saudade." The documentary is a "love song to fado, a two centuries old music whose influences were carried by sailors to Lisbon from Africa, Brazil and the Arab world."
The film travels from the Portuguese immigrant enclaves of California to New England’s former whaling ports, then to Lisbon’s candlelit fado houses and Indian Goa’s steamy, pastel bungalows.
Ana Moura is one of today's major fado stars. Born in 1979 in Santarem, Portugal, which is located on the Tagus River just north of Lisbon. The youngest fadista to be nominated for the Dutch Edison Award, Moura received the prize for Best Performer by the Foundation Amália Rodrigues. Her album, Leva-me aos Fados, has gone platinum in the top ten of best selling albums in Portugal.