Lisbon Cinematheque dedicates cycle to Licinio de Azevedo, director chronicler of Mozambique

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Lisbon Cinematheque dedicates cycle to Licinio de Azevedo, director chronicler of Mozambique

6:56 CAT | 03 Dec 2015

www.cinemateca.pt / "Desobediência" (Licínio de Azevedo, 2002).

Film director Licinio de Azevedo, who was born in Brazil in 1951 but has lived in Mozambique since the 1970s, is the subject of a retrospective being screened at the Lisbon Cinematheque. Screenings began on Monday with his 2011 film “Virgem Margarida”.

De Azevedo is intimately connected with the cinematic culture of Mozambique, being “deeply rooted in Mozambican reality cinema, in the aftermath of the war for independence and subsequent civil war,” reads the Lisbon Cinematheque’s brochure on the cycle.

De Azevedo, who is currently completing his latest project, a Luso-Mozambican co-production called “Comboio de Sal e Açúcar” (Train of Salt and Sugar) in Portugal, will be at the Cinematheque to present many of the films in this retrospective, which extends until 30 December.

More than twenty films will be screened, including shorts and feature-length films both documentary and fiction, and featuring his “A Colheita do Diabo” (The Harvest of the Devil), one of De Azevedo’s first films, shot in 1988 with the participation of former Frelimo fighters, and “Disobedience” (2002), shot in video with non-actors, which will be shown on the 28th December.

The program will also include the film “Licinio de Azevedo – Chronicles of Mozambique” by Margarida Cardoso, in which the filmmaker summarises his career in journalism, literature and film.

Licinio de Azevedo toured Latin America as a journalist, lived in Portugal and in Guinea-Bissau before coming to Mozambique, where he worked with Ruy Guerra, Luis Carlos Patraquim, Jean Rouch and Jean-Luc Godard, among others.

The cinema of Licinio de Azevedo “simultaneously focuses on the pressing issues of the Mozambican experience and its ‘community stories’, revealing the contemporary nature of Mozambican society; focuses numerous times on female figures and characters and the lives of the ancestry of African culture,” the retrospective’s programme reads.

Further information at: http://www.cinemateca.pt.

Source: Lusa