What is the legacy, the reach and the meaning of African independences – at times gained after particularly violent and difficult struggles – for African descendants, the children of dismantled empires who live in Europe and in Africa and maintain a relationship with both continents? Even when it arises discreetly, the turmoil caused by the wars for African independence has nourished the work of artists born several decades later.

On the same date, the filmmakers Ariel de Bigault and Amalia Escriva will be present at the round table Cinema e pós-memórias with the director Silas Tiny and the curator Olivier Hadouchi.

FILMS

Margem Atlântica (2006)
Ariel de Bigault / Portugal – France / 57 min

This documentary sets out to meet artists who have in common a personal connection with Africa, the land of their origins, families, childhoods. This intimate relationship feeds their creations and sustains their attitudes. The dynamics of the film raises encounters in a Lisbon journey, real and poetic, drawing a multifaceted and mixed-race artistic plot.

Dans les fils d’argent de tes robes (1996)
Amalia Escriva / France / 52 min

A film that explores the legacy of the Algerian war, the pain caused by the loss of a country, of dear places, of youth, the disappearance of an uncle. But it seems that for the second generation, descendants of returnees raised in France and forbidden to speak, their parents’ pain was so great that it took up a lot of space.

Summer Garden: Film festival

This outdoor film festival is divided in 6 sessions and included in the parallel activities of the exhibition Europa Oxalá, as well as in the program of Summer Garden 2022.