The Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane, the first black and African writer to win the Camões prize, is participating in the recording of a documentary in Brazil in which she exchanges letters with the Brazilian Elisa Lucinda and the Portuguese Raquel Lima.

The documentary "Letters to..." by Vânia Lima, from Bahia, proposes a bridge between Brazil, Mozambique, and Portugal through letters exchanged between them about experiences, challenges, and concerns.

The idea was to record between cities like Maputo, Lisbon, Porto, and Coimbra. In Brazil, the plan included the state of Espírito Santo - Elisa's birthplace - and Rio de Janeiro. But Bahia attracted the team and everything conspired in its favor, with the end of the film being shot between Salvador and Lauro de Freitas.

Divided into three acts, the documentary is driven by the restlessness: "What do women have to say to the world?", a path that director and screenwriter Vânia Lima sews through three themes: voice, body, and time.

"The letters drive the narrative and with each reading/writing we dive into layers of these women and fall in love with their journeys and struggles, we also travel from Brazil to Portugal, from Portugal to Mozambique, and return in new cycles, with images that bring these countries and their stories together that are directly linked to the language we speak," explains the writer.

The film is a Lima Comunicação production company, part of the Grupo Audiovisual Tem Dendê, with distribution by Lança Filmes, and has resources from Ancine's Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual (FSA), through the Banco Regional de Desenvolvimento do Extremo Sul (BRDE). The release date is 2023.