The Dockworkers Dream

Drawing from Portugals rich heritage of shipping trade and exploration The Dockworkers Dream takes the viewer on a journey downriver into port into factories towns and families and out into the great unknown Different ports of call are framed by the solitary sojourn of a dockworker perhaps remembering his own past or dreaming of anothers Like the hunters in his dream the film seeks to recover ancient and seldom viewed images from the recesses of our collective memory