‘Pequena África’, or ‘Little Africa’, is a place of cultural black resistance populated by freed enslaved between the 1850s and 1920s. It is the birthplace of samba. Nowadays this Brazilian region full of archaeological sites represents a living memory of slavery, which official history tried to erase even after abolition.
Also see Abolição, Alma no olho and Aniceto do Império em dia de alforria.
Also in this combined programme
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Elekô
A collage of poetic performances leading through an audio-visual experience of being a black woman. -
Merê
Film on black female protagonism in the Candomblé Jeje Mahi tradition; investigating its roots in Benin and its links to Brazil. -
Pontes sobre Abismos
Triggered by an unveiled family secret, Aline Motta’s ancestral quest confronts the traditional paradigms about miscegenation related to racism -
Travessia
An intimate and poetic essay about the photographic memory of black families. Both a critical perspective and tender counternarrative. -
NoirBLUE – Déplacements d’une danse
A compelling performative audiovisual essay on the diasporic experience of reconnecting with the African continent to retrieve cultural origins.
Film details
- Country of production
- Brazil
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
