The first light of day in Maputo – Radio Maputo Nakudzandza reports the disappearance of a bride. People saunter home from nightclubs, do morning sports, a tourist roams the streets, meanwhile others are getting up and heading off to work. For 24 hours, Ariadine Zampaulo lures us through the simultaneity of happenings in Mozambique’s capital. In her kaleidoscopic portrait, multiple realities and fictions mingle and collide in dense stories. Moments of connectedness, planned and unexpected encounters spin a narrative web across Maputo. Dance choreographies on rooftops, poetry in the streets, the throbbing soundscapes of a city riddled with tokens of a colonial past. In sublime gestures, this film captures the vivid yet subtle nuances of an urban polyphony in the present.
Credits
Screenplay: Maria Clotilde Guirrugo, Ariadine Zampaulo
With: Domingos Bié, Maria Clotilde Guirrugo, Salvado Mabjaia
Intro
Nosotras por nosotras by Vivian Crespo Zurita & Alessandra Santos
in Cooperation with Kültüř Gemma!
