Duplacena

Mozambique 1974 - the European name of the capital Lourenço Marques was deleted and replaced by Maputo. Between the delicacy and the apocalyptic, Brisa Solar reveals the little secrets of an African city that was born from a modernist dream, which led a revolution and which today sees its cultural heritage and threatened by Chinese capitalism.

Amid the aftermath of Mozambique’s civil war, I visit my grandmother, confronting fading memories and blurred lines between truth and fiction. A former rebel’s presence in the village echoes the relentless ghosts of war, mirroring the tensions of my generation.

"Blue Bird" is a letter to the director’s ancestors and a quest to understand the anxiety consuming his body, exploring how memories and the body intertwine.

The first character of the story comes to the apartment, trying to get away from the world. “His solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a couple who want to buy the apartment. As if part of a parallel universe, not all see that there is a man inside that apartment, only the woman of the couple sees and recognizes as a projection of herself. He dreams about her, or is she dreaming of him? A film about the reality we choose to see and what we choose to put aside and we prefer not to see.”

A volcanic eruption, an act of faith, the empire re-enacted in the Cavalhadas de São Pedro and the technologies of nature monitoring intertwine in a non-reductionist gesture of synthesis.