Ariadine Zampaulo: Maputo Nakuzandza - Official Selection - FESPACO 2023

Ariadine Zampaulo

Maputo Nakuzandza

Official Selection - FESPACO 2023

Mozambique - 2022 - 62min - Fiction

Synopsis

Radio Maputo Nakuzandza, 5h15: the first light of daybreak before immersing in the daily activities: an urban symphony of the big city of Maputo: capital of Mozambique. Young people leave the nightclubs and, in the backyards, women start their day. A man runs, a woman arrives from a trip, a tourist takes a walk, a worker takes the public transportation and the Maputo Nakuzandza radio station announces the disappearance of a bride.

Radio Maputo Nakuzandza, 5h15 : les premières lueurs du jour avant une immersion dans le quotidien : une symphonie urbaine de la grande ville de Maputo, capitale du Mozambique.

Bio

Editor and filmmaker, Ariadine Zampaulo’s filmography includes Maputo Nakuzandza (2022), Vazio do lado de fora (2017) and Patrimônio e Leitura (2019).

Ariadine Zampaulo est monteuse et réalisatrice. Elle est connue pour Maputo Nakuzandza (2022), Vazio do lado de fora (2017) et Patrimônio e Leitura (2019).

Laura Sousa: Fin | End - FESPACO 2021

FESPACO 2021
Short documentary in competition
Laura Sousa
Fin | End
Mozambique
15min12sec - Documentary - 2019

Image: Screen capture

Description

Lara –a young filmmaker– finds herself in a no place between Cuba and Mozambique. Over an imagined balcony towards the Indian Ocean, Lara is searching for answers to the long silence of her father. She does feel the loneliness preceding the imminent demise of her father, Camilo. She begins to draw up paths that prevent her from the beginning of the end.

(Source: https://vimeo.com/415447227)

Bio

Lara Sousa is a young and passioned filmmaker from Mozambique. Her short films have an essayist and self-referential aesthetic. She combines her political vision with a poetic language, searching for (...) a “nonplace” between Mozambique and other realities. (Source: Berlinale-talents)

Yara Costa: Entre eu e Deus | Between God and I (Afrika Film Festival Köln 2019)

Yara Costa

Entre eu e Deus | Between God and I

Afrika Film Festival Köln 2019

Yara Costa (Mozambique-Portugal)

Entre eu e Deus (Between God and I)

2018, 60 min.

http://afrikafilmfestivalkoeln.de/en/program-2019/entre-eu-e-deus-between-god-and-i/ 

DESCRIPTION

English

On the island of Mozambique the country’s deep-rooted traditions have long lived in peaceful co-existence with its religions such as Christianity and Islam. But in recent times, evangelical sects and Wahhabi Islamists have started to pose a threat to the island’s multicultural life. Director Yara Costa illustrates this through the film’s main protagonist, a young Muslim woman named Karen. On the one hand, she is an independent feminist who champions equality and fights poverty-related problems in her homeland. On the other hand, she advocates the implementation of Sharia law. Between God and I gives the viewer an intimate look into the life of our protagonist which bristles with doubts and contradictions concerning her identity. Yara Costa aims to explain what happens “when fundamentalist religions – of all kinds – get to places where the state doesn’t reach.” (Source: http://afrikafilmfestivalkoeln.de/en/program-2019/entre-eu-e-deus-between-god-and-i/ 

Français

Sur la Ilha de Moçambique, des traditions profondément ancrées dans le pays ont longtemps coexisté avec des religions comme le christianisme et l’islam. Mais aujourd’hui, des sectes évangéliques et des islamistes wahabites menacent la cohabitation multiculturelle. La réalisatrice Yara Costa illustre ceci en prenant l’exemple de la jeune musulmane Karen. Elle apparaît d’un côté comme une féministe indépendante qui s’engage pour l’égalité et tente de trouver des solutions aux problèmes de pauvreté dans son pays. D’un autre côté, elle soutient l’instauration de la charia. Entre dieu et moi offre un aperçu intime de la protagoniste, qui est prise de doutes et de contradictions au sujet de son identité. Yara Costa veut souligner ce qui arrive « lorsque des fondamentalistes de toutes sortes s’imposent dans des domaines négligés par l’État ». (Source: http://afrikafilmfestivalkoeln.de/fr/programme-2019/entre-eu-e-deus-between-god-and-i/)

BIO: YARA COSTA

English

Yara Costa is a journalist and director from Mozambique. After living in Angola and South Africa and working as a reporter in Brazil, she decided to start making film adaptations of largely unknown African stories as a means of counteracting the negative stereotypes that often dominate western media. In 2009 she received a scholarship on the News & Documentary graduate programme at New York University. In 2011 she shot her first film Why are they here?: Chinese stories in Africa. (Source: http://www.filme-aus-afrika.de/EN/film-database/persons/personen-details/w/4104/)

Français
Yara Costa est une journaliste et réalisatrice du Mozambique. Après avoir vécu en Angola et en Afrique du Sud, puis avoir travaillé comme reporter au Brésil, elle a décidé de filmer des histoires inconnues venues d’Afrique pour combattre les stéréotypes négatifs, souvent véhiculés par les médias occidentaux. En 2009, elle décroche une bourse pour faire des études en technique journalistique et documentaire à l’Université de New York. En 2011, elle tourne son premier film Why are they here?: Chinese stories in Africa. (Source: http://www.filme-aus-afrika.de/FR/base-de-donnees-sur-les-films/personnes/personen-details/w/4104/)