Sword in the Smile
Based on six interviews with writers whose lives have moved in different ways and at different times between Angola and Portugal - Ana Paula Tavares, Aida Gomes, Kalaf Epalanga, Raquel Lima, Yara Mont…
Sword in the Smile
Based on six interviews with writers whose lives have moved in different ways and at different times between Angola and Portugal - Ana Paula Tavares, Aida Gomes, Kalaf Epalanga, Raquel Lima, Yara Monteiro, Zetho Cunha Gonçalves - this documentary presents narratives of rupture and (re)conciliation. The interviewees address their biographical paths, characterized by geographical, cultural and/or emotional transits, motivated by historical events such as the Angolan national liberation struggle, the civil war, the so-called "return" from Africa, or shaped by family or individual decisions. The writers also reflect on their respective literary projects and the sense of belonging to one or several places where they came to live and build themselves as people and artists. The documentary was filmed and edited between September 2020 and June 2021, as part of the project National Identities in Dialogue: Political and Literary Identity Constructions in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique (1961-present), financed by the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (IF/00654/2015/CP1283/CT0004) and based at the Center for Portuguese Literature of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. —Doris Wieser
Sword in the Smile
Drama
Film Details
Based on six interviews with writers whose lives have moved in different ways and at different times between Angola and Portugal - Ana Paula Tavares, Aida Gomes, Kalaf Epalanga, Raquel Lima, Yara Monteiro, Zetho Cunha Gonçalves - this documentary presents narratives of rupture and (re)conciliation. The interviewees address their biographical paths, characterized by geographical, cultural and/or emotional transits, motivated by historical events such as the Angolan national liberation struggle, the civil war, the so-called "return" from Africa, or shaped by family or individual decisions. The writers also reflect on their respective literary projects and the sense of belonging to one or several places where they came to live and build themselves as people and artists.
The documentary was filmed and edited between September 2020 and June 2021, as part of the project National Identities in Dialogue: Political and Literary Identity Constructions in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique (1961-present), financed by the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (IF/00654/2015/CP1283/CT0004) and based at the Center for Portuguese Literature of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. —Doris Wieser.