Conakry

2013 11 minutes

65/100

Overview

"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm film staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and based on the archival images. The film-maker Filipa César, invited the Portuguese writer and artist Grada Kilomba and the American radio activist Diana McCarty to reflect on the images and their history, questioning what these film archive mean in a post-African liberation world.

Portuguese
📚Documentary

Cast

Released

25th October 2013

12 years ago

Runtime

11 minutes

Finishes at 4:27am

Ratings and awards

6.5/10
65%

Directed by

Filipa César

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