MEDIATECA ONSHORE

MEDIATECA ONSHORE

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Nossa Terra

20 March 2022
Mediateca Onshore, Malafo

The Mediateca was the stage for the world premiere of the digitisation of the film Nossa Terra (Our Land) by Mario Marret, produced by the PAIGC (the movement for independence in Guinea and Cape Verde) in 1966 and sought after by the Luta ca caba inda team for many years. Nossa Terra is a combat film, an urgent film, shot during the guerilla warfare surrounding Guinea-Bissau’s struggle for independence in the mid-1960s. Before becoming a politically committed filmmaker, Mario Marret had been a resistance fighter, an anarchist activist, a radio operator, an explorator. Making his way in French anti-colonial activist circles, he moved closer to the PAIGC, who was then interested in cinema as a combat tool. He will be the first director to join the struggle. “It was a testimony. Never mind the format, the camera, all these things, a filmmaker was present. The filmmaker must be at the place where the world is made, when it is made. (Mario Marret)” (Léa Morin)

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