This short documentary from NOWNESS turns its lens on the women of Santiago, Cape Verde, who still shape clay by hand as their mothers and grandmothers did. Shot on film, the piece matches the unhurried rhythm of its subjects, finding beauty in weathered hands and volcanic earth. It is more a meditation on endurance than a conventional craft film.

The directors Cayetano González and Julieta Lasarte avoid narration, letting gestures and landscapes speak. The result is an intimate record of a tradition facing an uncertain future, and a quiet argument for the value of slowness in both making and watching. Daughters of Clay honors its subjects without sentimentality, preserving something of their world on celluloid before it fades.