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Mangrove School

Original title: Skola di Tarafe
Year: 2022
Running time: 35 min.
Country: France
Director: Sonia Borges, Filipa César
Screenwriter: Filipa César
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Jenny Lou Ziegel
Producer: Co-production France-Portugal;
Spectre Production
Genre: Documentary | Half-length Film
Synopsis: A ghostly hand emerges from the water to clutch a branch. A friendly branch that can offer refuge in the lowlands. During the anticolonial struggle against Portuguese occupation, the free schools in Guinea-Bissau had to relocate frequently to avoid the bombardments. The schools moved deep into the jungle and found the mangroves. A vegetive system that seems to have grown and developed for no other purpose than to protect the schools from the bombs and from the teachings imposed by the colons. It is as if this impassable ecosystem were inviting struggle. Just as mountains, maquis and jungles provide haven for guerrillas, in Guinea-Bissau nature is an ally. Filipa César and Sonia Vaz Borges film the mangroves as an infrastructure with a networked architecture. It is here that they place the young bodies of students to whom the legacy of the anti-colonialist struggle and this environment is handed down.

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Mangrove School

2022

Sonia Borges, Filipa César