Cuba

CUBA is a film essay based on Filipa César’s research on Guinea-Bissau’s then recently digitized film archive. A sole tracking shot unfolds a lecture presented by the Guinean filmmaker and régulo, Suleimane Biai, the Portuguese-Spanish performer Joana Barrios, and the Guinean actor and director of Bissau’s Film Institute (INCA), Carlos Vaz. The film proposes a path from Amílcar Cabral’s experience as an agronomist researching the soil of the Portuguese village Cuba through his engagement as a leader of the Guinean liberation movement and promoter of the birth of Guinean militant filmmaking influenced and supported by Cuba.

Filipa César is a filmmaker and artist based in Berlin. In addition to CUBA 2013, two more of her films have been shown at Forum Expanded and two others at Forum.

Forum Expanded catalog 2013