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Sens Critique / Still from The Train of Salt and Sugar
‘The Train of Salt and Sugar’ (‘Comboio de Sal e Açúcar’) by Mozambican filmmaker Licínio Azevedo won Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the Khourigba African Film Festival, in Morocco, on Saturday.
Of the 14 films that competed, the Azevedo’s was the only one to win two prizes at the week-long festival. First prize, the festival’s prestigious Grand Prix Sembene Ousmane, went to the film ‘A Day for Women’ (‘Un Jour Pour les Femmes’) by Egyptian director Kamla Abu Zekri.
‘The Train of Salt and Sugar’ is the latest Mozambican fiction film, and comes four years after the last production, ‘Virgin Margarida’, also directed by Azevedo.
The new movie is an adaptation of the book written 15 years ago by the director which tells the story of a nurse who falls in love with a soldier during a train trip in the heat of the Mozambican civil war as tries to reach its destination through the dangers of military confrontation.
The film brings together actors from Mozambique, Angola and Brazil, and will premiere in Portugal and Germany shortly.
The jury was chaired by Moroccan poet and author Abdellatif Laâbi, and included actress Rokhaya Niang (Senegal), visual artist Zoulikha Bouabdellah (Algeria), actress Sonia Oukacha (Morocco), author and musician Ray Lema (DR Congo), producer and director Pedro Pimenta (Mozambique) and Nico Simon, president of Europa Cinemas (Luxembourg).
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