Professor Catarina Alves Costa (NOVA Universidade Lisboa) is presenting her recent film A Journey to the Makonde.
A journey to Mozambique in the search of a hidden story with an experimental use of film archives and a subjective narration.
In the film, I travel to Maputo to meet the Makonde ethnic group living in the city. With me, the films and photographs made by Margot Dias, an ethnologist who filmed between 1958 and 1961 among the Makonde people in North Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony until 1975. An inward journey that will gradually untie the circumstances in which these original films were made.