An intimate and sensitive look at the reunion of the ‘owners of the secret’ of the nation of Candomble Jeje Mahi, an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition under threat of social death. The film invites the matriarchs of the cult of Vodun in Bahia for their first encounter with Africa.
Also in this combined programme
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Pontes sobre Abismos
Triggered by an unveiled family secret, Aline Motta’s ancestral quest confronts the traditional paradigms about miscegenation related to raci
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NoirBLUE – Déplacements d’une danse
A compelling performative audiovisual essay on the diasporic experience of reconnecting with the African continent to retrieve cultural origins.
Elekô
A collage of poetic performances leading through an audio-visual experience of being a black woman.
Pequena África
Zózimo Bulbul’s fourth film explores neighbourhoods known as ‘Little Africa’, places of black cultural resistance inhabite
Travessia
An intimate and poetic essay about the photographic memory of black families. Both a critical perspective and tender counternarrative.
Film details
- Country of production
- Brazil
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 16"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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