Round table | The Colonial Question Retrospective

The legacy of the liberation movements from the former European colonies in Africa translates into a programme of films that at the time witnessed and fostered change, and that are now a chance to reflect, but also the ballast and the fuse for the fights we have to fight nowadays. Bringing filmmakers and spectators together around these films and discussing them, including the relation between cinema and militancy, memory and image, body and history, is the focal point of the retrospective with eyes set on the present.

The session will be held in Portuguese and French, with no translation.
Free admission.

08 Oct — 15:00 / 90’

Cinema São Jorge Sala 2

Nebulae

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Round table | The Colonial Question Retrospective

Speakers

Filipa César

She is interested in the fictional aspects of film montage, the porous boundaries between moving image and reception, and the economies, poetics and politics inherent to cinema praxis. César’s research on the imaginaries of the Guinea-Bissau liberation movement as a laboratory for decolonizing epistemologies begun in 2011 and has been developed into many collective projects such Luta ca caba inda and Mediateca Onshore. Co-Director of the films Navigating the Pilot School and Mangrove School, presented in this retrospective.

Franssou Prenant

Actress, screenwriter, editor and filmmaker. She worked with Raymond Depardon, Romain Goupil and Jacques Kébadian, among others. Director of the film About the Conquest, presented in this retrospective.

Licínio de Azevedo

Brazilian filmmaker, producer and writer who’s been living in Mozambique since 1978. Worked at the National Film Institute, joining productions by Ruy Guerra and Jean-Luc Godard. Headed the TV programme Canal Zero at the Institute of Social Communication of Mozambique. Started the production company Ébano Multimédia. His documentary and fiction films have won dozens of awards in major international festivals. Director of the films Nhinguitimo and The Devil’s Harvest, presented in this retrospective.

Moderator

Amarante Abramovici

(retrospective curator)