Sleepwalking Land (film)

Sleepwalking Land
Directed byTeresa Prata
Screenplay byTeresa Prata (Adaptación de la novela epónima de Mia Couto)
Produced byFilmes de Fundo, Ebano Multimedia, ICAM, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP), ZDF Arte
StarringNick Lauro Teresa, Aldino José, Hélio Fumo, Ilda Gonzalez, Laura Soveral
CinematographyDominique Gentil
Edited byPaulo Ebelo, Jacques Witta
Music byAlex Goretzki
Release date
  • 2007 (2007)
Running time
103'
CountriesGermany
Mozambique
Portugal

Sleepwalking Land is a 2007 film based on the eponymous novel by Mia Couto. The film took its director Teresa Prata seven years to complete.[1]

Synopsis

In Mozambique, the civil war causes devastation among the population. Amongst this chaos, young Muidinga dreams of finding his family. One day, he finds a diary on a lifeless body in a gunned-down bus;[2] it speaks of a woman searching for her son. Convinced that he's the missing son, Muidinga decides to find her. On his journey he's accompanied by an old man, Tuahir, always ready to tell a tale. Their journey is a battle, and turns them into somnambulists in a country devastated by war.

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c Blandine Stefanson; Sheila Petty (2014). Directory of World Cinema Africa. Intellect Books. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-78320-391-8.
  2. ^ Olivier Barlet (2016). Contemporary African Cinema. MSU Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-62895-270-4.


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