KinoYetu presents:
Post-colonial Film Series
12 - 22.05.2021

Curator:
Ana Cristina Pereira

Co-organiser:
KinoYetu

The films that were selected for this small series, fulfil two criteria. The first relates to the will to show aspects of african cultures that are rarely made visible by the news broadcasted in the media. Each film, in its way, reveals artists and their art, but also the way they organize creation, circulation and consumption of the produced pieces. The selection responds in a very particular way to the designation “post-colonial” that was proposed by KinoYetu Association, who aims to foster creation, production and dissemination of african films. The group of works presented here is constituted as post-colonial, not only because it reveals facets of society that were colonized and that preserve traces of that colonization, but mainly because it contains and surpasses the relationship between identity and otherness born during colonialism.

In this series, we will watch: “Alma ta Fika” by a portuguese director that is quoted 30 years later in “Kmê Deus”, a film by a cape-verdean; then, “Mãos de Barro” [Hands of Clay] by a brasilian director based in Mozambique since mid 70s; and finnaly “Luanda, a Fábrica da Música” [Luanda, the Factory of Music], a piece by a portuguese director and an angolan director.

Programme

12 May – Cape Verde
with Ana Cristina Pereira and João Sodré
- Alma ta Fika (1989) by João Sodré, 60’. RTP, Vermedia, RTBF, Euroceation, Saga Filme, Cinefilme. Documentary
- Kmê Deus (2020) Nuno Miranda, 53’. Pedro Soulé. Documentary

17 May – Mozambique
with Ana Cristina Pereira
- Mãos de Barro, (2006) by Licinio Azevedo, 47’. Lx Filmes, Ébano Multimédia. Documentário.

22 May – Angola
with Ana Cristina Pereira
- Luanda, a Fábrica da Música, (2009) by Inês Gonçalves e Kiluanje Liberdade, 54’. No Land Films. Documentary

Support:
Ágora - Cultura e Desporto, E.M.

Photos:
INSTITUTO