Vanessa Fernandes: Focus on Guinean Film
Utopia UK Portuguese Film Festival 2021
The Female Gaze in 12 Films
19 December 2021 15h00 (GMT)
19 December 2021 15h00 (GMT)
Events available to UK audiences
Q&A with the filmmaker
Tradition and Imagination - Tradição e Imaginação
2018, 4’32”
A film narrating memories of a past, of slavery in Beni.
Her Destiny - Si Destino
2015, 21’37”
After losing her mother and sister to an accident in Guiné Bissau, Fatinha moves to Portugal with her father, Abdhula. He decides to remarry. The issue of the “purification”, (female genital mutilation) of Fatinha, now eleven, comes up when Fatumata, the bride’s grandmother, enters their lives. This begins to rock Fatinha’s world, especially in her dreams, "a kind of rêverie" where she walks in a mystic forest and confronts her fears of a situation she doesn’t even understand, but can certainly feel. The film addresses the issue of family decision in the face of tradition even when far away from home.
Bio
Vanessa Fernandes is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist from Guinéa-Bissau
2018, 4’32”
A film narrating memories of a past, of slavery in Beni.
Her Destiny - Si Destino
2015, 21’37”
After losing her mother and sister to an accident in Guiné Bissau, Fatinha moves to Portugal with her father, Abdhula. He decides to remarry. The issue of the “purification”, (female genital mutilation) of Fatinha, now eleven, comes up when Fatumata, the bride’s grandmother, enters their lives. This begins to rock Fatinha’s world, especially in her dreams, "a kind of rêverie" where she walks in a mystic forest and confronts her fears of a situation she doesn’t even understand, but can certainly feel. The film addresses the issue of family decision in the face of tradition even when far away from home.
Bio
Vanessa Fernandes is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist from Guinéa-Bissau
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