Brazilian photographer Luís Dalvan was the winner of the Altitude Film Fest competition, promoted by TAP. Between Earth and Heaven was the most voted documentary among the five finalists in the category. The results were announced at an event held in Lisbon, this Wednesday, November 5th, World Cinema Day.
According to Mário Cruz, the company’s commercial head, the objective of the exhibition is “to transport ideas, history, Portuguese culture and Portugueseness around the world”. And it was the Brazilian who best portrayed this Portugueseness, in a documentary that begins with an image of the late afternoon on the Tagus River, in Ribeira das Naus, and a voice with a Brazilian accent: “My grandfather said: everything is worth it when the soul is not small.”
According to the documentary’s synopsis, Between Earth and Heaven is “a visual poem about the soul of Portugal, where time does not pass — it just breathes. Between stone alleys and the infinite sea, echoes of the past find a future that has not yet arrived. The lighthouse guides those who leave and brings them back, like someone returning to a house made of water and sky.”
The work can be viewed on board the company’s aircraft until November 2026.