Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle to screen award-winning Mozambican documentary “A Memory in Three Acts” on 8 March at ISEG, with free admission
The 2024/2025 season of the Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle has been running since November 2024, hosting cineclub-style sessions to explore the legacies and memories of decolonisation. The next session, scheduled for March 8, will feature a screening of the Mozambican production A Memory in Three Acts (Inadelso Cossa, 2016, 64 min), which has received awards at international film festivals, including the renowned Zanzibar Festival – one of the most significant in Africa – and the Afrikafilm Festival, a highly regarded African film festival in Europe. The film will be shown at 10:00 a.m. in Auditorium 2 at ISEG (Rua do Quelhas 6, Quelhas Building, 2nd Floor – Cloister), with free admission.
Following the film screening, a Q&A session will take place with the participation of Mozambican film director Inadelso Cossa (online), Mozambican film-maker Camilo de Sousa, anthropologist João Pina-Cabral, also ICS researcher, and the Luso-Mozambican poet Ana Mafalda Leite, also CEsA researcher.
Synopsis – Uma Memória em Três Atos (“A Memory in Three Acts”, Inadelso Cossa, 2016, Mozambique, 64 min)
A Memory in Three Acts is a film about post-colonial trauma and the crisis of collective memory, in which anonymous characters embark on a journey into their colonial past to heal this open wound. Former political prisoners return to the site where they were tortured to confront the colonial ghost and face their post-torture trauma. A film-essay on colonialism and violence that questions the duty of memory.
Credits
Production: 16mmfilmes (Mozambique)
Co-production: Weltfilm Gmbh (Alemanhã)
Direction: Inadelso Cossa
Cinematography: Inadelso Cossa
Sound: Moises Langa
Post-Production Direction: Memmo Boerema / Inadelso Cossa
Awards
Prize of Flemish Committion for Unesco for best documentary at Afrikafilm festival Leuvren Belgian 2020
Especial Jury Prize no Festival Internacional de Cinema de Zanzibar 2018, Tanzania
Menção Honrosa no Festival Internacional do Filme Etnografico do Recife 2017, Brasil
About the Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle
The sessions of the Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle will continue until June 2025, with screenings taking place in Auditorium 2 at ISEG. This initiative runs parallel to the exhibition Deconstructing Colonialism, Decolonising the Imagination, on display at the National Museum of Ethnology until 2 November.
Check out the programme below:
Decolonisation must be understood as an ongoing process, one that needs to be embraced and integrated into social, political, cultural, and personal dynamics. The project aims to create an open, dynamic space for sharing memories, narratives, dialogues, and reflections. It is coordinated by researcher Jessica Falconi (CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG/ULisboa) and curated by researcher and filmmaker Isabel Noronha (CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG/ULisboa) and filmmaker Camilo de Sousa.
Coordination: Jessica Falconi (CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG/ULisboa)
Curation: Isabel Noronha (CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG/ULisboa) and Camilo de Sousa
Scientific Consulting: Isabel Castro Henriques (CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG/ULisboa), Joana Pereira Leite (CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG/ULisboa), and Ana Mafalda Leite (CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG/ULisboa)
Collaboration: Luca Fazzini and João Moreira Silva
Support: CEsA/ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG/ULisboa
Read more:
A Memory in Three Acts – NILUS/CEsA Website
Cycle of Cinema and Decolonization | Screening of the film “A Memory in Three Acts” – ISEG Website
A Memory in Three Acts – Trailer on YouTube
Author: CEsA Communication Team (comunicacao@cesa.iseg.ulisboa.pt)
Image: Reproduction
