• Mueda, Memory and Massacre
  • Mueda, Memory and Massacre
  • Makwayela
  • Nhinguitimo


Mueda, Memory and Massacre

(Mueda: Memória e massacre)

Ruy Guerra
Mozambique, 1979

New Digital Restoration
Screen Slate Pick!

featuring

Romao Canapoquele, Filipe Gunoguacala, Mauricio Machimbuco,

After independence was declared, Ruy Guerra returned to Mozambique from Brazil—where he had been a key figure in the Cinema Novo movement—and helped establish the National Film Institute. His depiction of a reenactment of the 1960 Mueda massacre, which triggered the war of independence, was the first feature-length film of Mozambican cinema. Hundreds of people were killed when Portuguese troops fired on peaceful demonstrators protesting the arrest of two exiles. Locals, including survivors who also offer testimony, participate in this regularly staged political theater, playing both the victims and the oppressors.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Calisto Dos Lagos
Cinematographer
  • Ruy Guerra
  • Fernando Silva
Language
  • Makonde
  • Portuguese
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 75 mins
Source
  • Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art
Preceded By

Nhinguitimo

Licínio Azevedo, Mozambique, 2021

Tensions over dispossession of rural land unfold in this fictional reconstruction, as a farmworker rebels against colonizers.

FILM DETAILS 
Based On

  • a story by Luís Bernardo Honwana

Language
  • Portuguese
  • Rongo
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • Digital
  • 23 mins
source
  • Licínio Azevedo

Makwayela

Jacques d’Arthuys, Jean Rouch, France, Mozambique, 1977

Workers sing and dance as a form of protest in the only film record of the training workshops Jean Rouch and a team of filmmakers held at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo.

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Portuguese
  • with English electronic titles
Print Info
  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 18 mins
source
  • Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
permission
  • Comité du Film Éthnographique
permission
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Additional Info
  • 35mm Archival Print

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