Cabralist films
Film cycle Africanities and Their Human Landscapes
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Open-Air Amphitheatre Gulbenkian Garden
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
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Flora Gomes
He was born in Cadique, in the former Portuguese Guinea, under colonial rule. He studied cinema with Santiago Álvarez Román in Cuba and with Paulin Soumanou Vieyra in Dakar. In 1973, he took part in the meeting Third World Filmmakers in Algiers, a meeting of the Popular Cinema Committee, which was concerned with discussions about ‘Third World’ cinema, imperialism and (neo)colonialism. He is recognised as a former combatant, since he used other forms of weapons and struggle, transforming the history and culture of his country of birth into film material.
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Maíra Zenun
She is an immigrant multidisciplinary artist, mother and sociologist, a Brazilian poet in transit. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, raised in Petrópolis, grew up between Goiás and Brasília, and now lives on the Linha de Sintra in Portugal. Co-creator of the Nêga Filmes Cultural Association, she develops transdisciplinary projects in visual arts, cinema, curating, education, photography, poetry and performance. Since 2016, she has coordinated and curated various film cycles and exhibitions, such as the Mostra Internacional de Cinema na Cova – África e suas Diásporas.
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Vanessa Fernandes
She was born in Guinea-Bissau and has lived in several countries. A director and multidisciplinary artist, she has a master’s degree in Film and Television Directing from ESAP. She directed the photography for the film Mudança, by Welket Bungué, which was selected for the Berlinale 2021. She collaborates with Cão Danado, AgitLab, VIC, Corpodehoje, Femafro, UNA – União Negra das Artes and SOS Racismo. She has made several short films and taken part in several international festivals and conferences.
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Welket Bungué
He is a multidisciplinar artist, of Balanta ethnicity, born in Guinea-Bissau. He has a degree in Theatre – Actors, and a post-grad in Performance. He is the co-founder of KUSSA productions. In 2021 he became a member of the European Academy of Film. His films have been shown internationally at numerous film festivals. In 2020 Welket starred in Berlin Alexanderplatz, directed by Burhan Qurbani, in which his performance earned him several award nominations. His book Corpo Periférico shares the story of his life and artistic career since 2006.
Programme
A República di Mininus (2012)
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’
Duration: 78’
Eu Não Sou Pilatus (2019)
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’
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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