Muidinga, 12 ans, recherche sa famille en pleine guerre civile au Mozambique. Adapté du roman du grand écrivain Mia Couto, un très beau film tourné avec des acteurs non professionnels.

Au début des années 90, dans un Mozambique dévasté par la guerre civile. Muidinga, un jeune garçon à l’allure fragile, est à la recherche de ses parents. Il est accompagné par Tuahir, un vieillard qui a fait de lui son protégé. Plus d’une fois, Tuahir a sauvé la vie du garçon en lui évitant de marcher sur une mine ou de tomber dans une embuscade. Un jour, le vieillard et l’enfant croisent un bus qui a été attaqué par des mercenaires. Tous les passagers ont été tués. Dans les vêtements de l’un d’eux, Muidinga découvre un journal intime…

(Portugal, Mozambique, 2002, 95mn, VOSTF)

Réalisateur: Teresa Prata
Image: Dominique Gentil
Musique: Alex Goretzki
Montage: Jacques Witta, Paulo Rebelo
Acteur: Aladino Jasse, Ernesto Lemos Macuacua, Helio Fumo, Ilda Gondzales, Laura Soveral, Nick Lauro Teresa
Auteur: Teresa Prata nach dem Roman « Das schlafwandelnde Land » und der Erzählung « A meni
Production: Animatografo 2 (Portugal), Ebano Multimedia (Mosambik), Filmes de Fundo
Producteur: António da Cunha Telles, Pandora Films, Pandora da Cunha Telles

PRIX
International Film Festival of Kerala, India (FRIPESCI Award);
International Film Festival of Pune, India (Best Director Award);
African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan, Italy (Signis Award);
Festival Indie Lisboa, Portugal (Audience Award and Special Mention);
Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival, Turkey (Save The Children Award)

FESTIVALS
Festival de Montreal, Canada;
Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival, Germany;
Festival do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
Fajr International Film Festival, Iran;
Birds-Eye View Film Festival, United Kingdom;
Natfilm Festival, Denmark; AfriKamera, Poland;
Festival Cines del Sur, Spain;
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia;
Festival de Tarifa, Spain;
Zanzibar International Film Festival, Tanzania;
Africa in the Pictures, Netherlands; Films From the South Festival – Norway;
Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia;
Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt



Distributeur : MARFILMES (www.marfilmes.com)

Mozambique, civil war. Muidinga, a boy with big dreamy eyes, finds a diary beside a corpse and begins reading it. It is the story of Farida who lives in an old ship anchored out at sea, and who is searching for her own son. Muidinga convinces himself that he is the boy in the diary and decides to search for her. He sets off with his wise guardian Tuahir, a tough old storyteller, who finds it difficult to show his growing affection for the boy. Tuahir even becomes jealous that Muidinga might soon find his family. Like sleepwalkers, Muidinga and Tuahir wander through the war-torn landscape, both burdened with a past too horrible to remember. But amongst the devastation of the Mozambican civil war, Sleepwalking Land depicts through magical storytelling the importance of dreams, friendship and hope.



By Teresa Prata
Mozambique/Portugal | 1h36m | Digibeta | Xangana and Portuguese with English subtitles | Rating 15 | Fiction


AWARDS
International Film Festival of Kerala, India (FRIPESCI Award);
International Film Festival of Pune, India (Best Director Award);
African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan, Italy (Signis Award);
Festival Indie Lisboa, Portugal (Audience Award and Special Mention);
Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival, Turkey (Save The Children Award)

FESTIVALS
Festival de Montreal, Canada;
Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival, Germany;
Festival do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
Fajr International Film Festival, Iran;
Birds-Eye View Film Festival, United Kingdom;
Natfilm Festival, Denmark; AfriKamera, Poland;
Festival Cines del Sur, Spain;
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia;
Festival de Tarifa, Spain;
Zanzibar International Film Festival, Tanzania;
Africa in the Pictures, Netherlands; Films From the South Festival – Norway;
Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia;
Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt


Distributor : MARFILMES (www.marfilmes.com)