SUNDAY 19 DECEMBER 15h00 (GMT) 

Free entrance (no need to register in advance). | This session will have open worldwide online transmission: https://vimeo.com/event/1646669 | pass: utopia191500

Curated by Ana Cristina Pereira

FOCUS ON GUINEAN FILM

The films will be followed byt a talk with the director.

TRADITION AND IMAGINATION (TRADIÇÃO E IMAGINAÇÃO)

2018, 4’32”

Director: Vanessa Fernandes

A film narrating the memories of a past of slavery in Benim.

HER DESTINY (SI DESTINO)

2015, 21’37”

Director: Vanessa Fernandes

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.

Vanessa Fernandes