Cabralist films

Film cycle Africanities and Their Human Landscapes

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The film cycle Africanities and Their Human Landscapes brings to the Summer Garden a selection of nine fiction films, divided into three sessions.

The second session of the cycle features a brief retrospective, presenting two films from the Mostra Internacional de Cinema na Cova – África e Suas Diásporas, which in recent years has brought to the Cova da Moura neighbourhood a huge diversity of works produced by black people from all over the world.

In the year commemorating the centenary of Amílcar Cabral and the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, this session aims to to promote reflection on the legacy of the struggles for the independence in Africa through a film by Flora Gomes – Cabral’s direct heir – and another by Welket Bungué, a descendant of the first generations of African filmmakers.

The session will be introduced by Vanessa Fernandes Pascoal and mediated by Maíra Zenun.

The film cycle Africanities and Their Human Landscapes gathers a selection of nine fiction, documentary and experimental films, including shorts and features, presenting the public with a relevant overview of recent productions.

The works are part of a production that flourished with the race pictures in the United States and the struggles for independence in Africa, between the 1950s and 1970s, and has continued to grow and improve, always focused on the vision of black people.

In the summer of 2024, a year that celebrated dates as important as the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April and the 100th anniversary of Amílcar Cabral's birth, we're going to unveil these stories, listen to their versions of time and let ourselves be carried away by the poetics that make up this black cinematography, which is increasingly interesting, plural, powerful and potent.

This cycle makes visible what can no longer be hidden: that Europe is diverse, made up of people from various cultures, creeds and backgrounds, people who, on a daily basis, make up the foundations and pillars of our society.

 

Image: Still from the film Eu Não Sou Pilatus, by Welket Bungué

Summer Garden 2024

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Biographies


Programme

A República di Mininus (2012)

Flora Gomes
In a country at war and frightened by the tragedies they have caused to themselves, the adults disappear, leaving the children to their own fortune. In order to survive this new reality, they will have to band together. And so the República di Mininus is born, where policeman, politicians, doctors, bosses and employees are just children. In this new society, unity, respect and harmony are the mottos, but suddenly the established peace is shattered when five child soldiers arrive in the República di Mininus. They bring with them difficult pasts and troubled attitudes, so they are forced to pass a test imposed by the boys of the new society: either they accept each other as a group, or they will have to leave again for a world without hope, where survival is something that doesn't exist.
Duration: 78’

Eu Não Sou Pilatus (2019)

Welket Bungué
This is a manifesto. We understand it perfectly. This is the state we have reached. However, we want civil rights to be respected, but we continue to express an apparently unusual and distant type of feeling towards the other, an endemic, purging and distancing racism.
Duration: 11’

Credits

A República di Minius

Authors: Flora Gomes and Franck Moisnard
Music: Youssou N” Dour
Production: Filmes do Tejo II
Cast: Anny Glover, Hedviges Mamudo, Melanie De Vales Rafael, Joyce Simbine Saiete, Bruno Nhavene, Anais Adrianopoulos, Stephen Carew, Maurice Ngwakum

Eu Não Sou Pilatus

Artistic manifest with poetic license: Welket Bungué
Edition: Welket Bungué
Production: KUSSA Productions

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