Films by Filipa César

Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, Germany 2023, 92 min
by Marinho de Pina, Filipa César

The Mediateca Onshore in Malafo, a village in Guinea-Bissau, is an archive and a club for agropoetic practices. As Amílcar Cabral talks feminism on tape, the directors speak in the mangroves about the contradictions of depicting the community. [74 BERLINALE - Forum]Centrifugal movement was an expression once used to describe the tactical and situated beginnings of an anti-colonial armed struggle. In a flow of gestures and recurrences, a building is collectively imagined and constructed in the tr

France, Germany, Portugal 2022, 35 min
by Filipa César, Sónia Vaz Borge

During Guinea-Bissau’s struggle for independence from Portugal in the 1960s, rebel leader Amílcar Cabral launched an ambitious education programme to fight the Portuguese colonial power. In ‘Mangrove School’, Filipa César and Sónia Vaz Borges traverse the history and impact of the movement. In the 1960s and 70s, the nomadic guerrilla schools under the mangrove trees became symbols of the people’s anti-colonial struggle, including against the colonial mentality itself. A school system set up by m