The first cultural action of the Mozambican Government after the independence, in 1975, was to create the National Film Institute (INC). Its mobile cinema units screened the newsreel Kuxa Kanema all over the country. Kuxa Kanema means ‘the birth of cinema’. Its goal was to capture the image of the people and to hand it back to the people. There’s almost nothing left from INC. The images that are the only witness to the years of the socialist revolution rot in an annex.
Director Margarida Cardoso will be present at the screening.
