Centrifugal movement was an expression once used to describe the tactical, situated beginnings of an anti-colonial armed struggle. In a flow of gestures and recurrences, a building is collectively imagined and constructed by the traditional community of the militant Guinea-Bissauan filmmaker Sana na N’Hada. Future is rejected to make space for what waits ahead. Intertwining local dreams and cine-kin’s visions, Resonance Spiral traverses moments at the newly erected community space in Malafo. Old plans for a videotheque are revisited for the mediateca. The women of the Satna Fai association listen to forgotten voices and rest from millennia of abuse. An informal sewing workshop, an experimental garden, a bibliotera and a pre-school are set up in the space. Adolescents voice a circle and sound self-built instruments. At the well, a discussion is staged about mud medicine. Ciné-kins undermine their own agencies and distrust neo-liberal slogans. With solidary hearts and a desire to flip verticalities into horizon lines, the collective slides through mud. Onshore. Abotcha. Na tchon. Humus, humans, humbled, humiliated by humanity.
74. Berlinale - Forum
mon, 19.02.2024 - 12:30 Safi Faye Saal (World Premiere) - Q&A
tue, 20.02.2024 - after 21:30 GET-TOGETHER - KUMPELNEST 3000 - Lützowstraße 23, 10785 Berlin
21.02.2024 - 13:00 Kino Arsenal 1 - Q&Athu, 22.02.2024 - 21:00 Kino Betonhalle@silent green - Q&Afri, 23.02.2024 - 13:00 Kino Arsenal 2 (Press Screening) - Q&Asat, 24.02.2024 - 18:45 Kino Arsenal 1 - Q&A
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MoMA Doc Fortnight
tue, 27.02.2024 - 19:00 - MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2 - Q&A (International Premiere) -The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2fri, 01.03.2024 - 16:30 - MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2 -The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
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Cinema du Reél
thu, 28.03.2024 - 19:00, Forum des images - Salle 300 (French Premiere)sat, 30.03.2024 - 14:30, Centre Pompidou - Cinéma 1 - Q&A
RESONANCE SPIRAL assembled by Filipa César & Marinho de Pina
92’, 2K, colour, stereo, 2024
Portugal/ Guinea-Bissau/ Germany
languages Spoken: Guinea-Bissau Creole, Cape Verdean Creole, French and Portuguese DCP
with Bedan na Onça, Bidan Quelenque, Cristina Mendes, Mû Mbana, N’sai Ndiba, N’sai na Tchuto, João Polido Gomes, Pereira na Onça, Pedro na Onça, Pedro Maia, Sancho Silva, Sana na N’Hada, Satna Fai, Sónia Vaz Borges, Vanessa Fernandes & community of Malafo logline The Mediateca Onshore in Malafo, a village in Guinea-Bissau, is an archive and a hub for agropoetic practices. As Amílcar Cabral talks feminism on tape, ciné-kins speak from the mangroves about the contradictions of their practice.
