Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema

  • Mozambique, journal d'une indépendance (Kuxa Kanema)
Genre : Historical
Type : Documentary
Original title : Kuxa Kanema: O Nascimento do Cinema [Portugal]
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, History/society
Year of production : 2003
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 60 (in minutes)
http://www.derives.be/films/mozambique-journal-dune-independance

The first cultural act of Mozambique's government right after independence, in 1975, was creating the National Institute of Cinema [NIC]. The new President, Samora Machel, had a strong conscience of the cinematic potential while creating an image for a new socialist nation. All over the country, cinema road units were screening NIC's most popular production, a newsreel untitled Kuxa Kanema, which means The Birth of Cinema. People's Republic of Mozambique became the Republic of Mozambique and NIC, once a great enterprise, was reduced to abandoned rooms and corridors, where the staff stood patiently waiting for retirement.
The building was destroyed by a fire back in 1991, and the visual documents that witness the first eleven years of independence - the years of the socialist revolution - were rotting in an out-building, and about to be forgotten.
From these and other living testimonies, we will recover the path of a nation's ideal, which has fallen apart, day by day, together with "one cinema for the people", and with the dreams from those who believed that Mozambique could one day become a different country.

a film by / un film de
Margarida CARDOSO

Portugal/France/Belgium - 2003 - Documentary - 1h00' - Mini DV - Color & Black and White - O.V. with French subs



Title / Titre [Portugal] : Kuxa Kanema: O Nascimento do Cinema
Title / Titre (France) : MOZAMBIQUE, JOURNAL D'UNE INDÉPENDANCE
Title / Titre (International) : Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema
Year of Production / Année de Production : 2002
Year of release / Année de sortie : 2003
Media / Support : Mini DV
Colors / couleurs : Couleur & Noir et blanc
Countries of Production / Pays de Production : Portugal/France/Belgique
Language / Langue : Portugais
Subtitles / Sous-titres : French
Runtime / Durée : 60'


Director / Réalisatrice :
Margarida Cardoso

- Screenwriter / Scénariste :
Margarida Cardoso

- Cinematography / Image :
Lisa Hagstrand

- Sound / Son :
Margarida Cardoso

- Editing / Montage :
Isabelle Rathery, Timothy Miller

Production :
Lapsus,
Dérives,
Filmes Do Tejo,
Arte France,
RTP,
RTBF


PARTNERS / PARTENAIRES :
ICAM
CNC
ProcirepFACCID

Distribution :
France : Doc & Co


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FILMOGRAFIA / FILMOGRAPHY
2008 Aljubarrota (em produção)
2007 Era preciso fazer as coisas
2004 A Costa dos Murmúrios
2003 Kuxa Kanema - O Nascimento do Cinema
2000 Com Quase Nada
1999 Do Outro Lado / Entre Nós / Natal 71
1996 Dois Dragões

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