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435786

Conakry

2012-01-01 pt 11m
Documentary
"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.

Sound

Dídio Pestana

Director

Filipa César

Director of Photography

Matthias Biber

woman director

Status

Released

Countries

  • Germany
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau

Companies