Cuba and Mozambique / 2018 / 15mins / Documentary / Spanish and English

In this arresting cinepoem, a young filmmaker inhabits an unsettled space between Cuba and Mozambique as her aging father recalls filming the revolution and how his vision of independence was at odds with dominating ideologies. Alongside beautifully composed images evoking melancholy and fracture, she meditates on the complexities of both her relationship to her father and her homeland.

Lara Sousa

Lara Sousa is a filmmaker from Mozambique. She studied documentary filmmaking at the EICTV (Cuba). Lara's short films have an essayistic and self-referential aesthetic. Her films have been selected for into several festivals, including Dakar’s Biennale 2020. She was selected for ColabNowNow – British Council Digital Arts Residence, as a Southern African storyteller and was recently selected to Berlinale Talent Campus, as well as Talent Campus DocStation. Lara is a fellow of Digital Lab Africa, and a Creative Producers Indaba Fellow. Her first documentary, The Ship and the Sea, was selected for the Berlinale DocStation and won the IDFA Bertha Fund Award at the Durban Film Market in 2020. Learn More