‘Nyo Vweta Nafta’ – ‘Made in Mozambique’ short film selected to compete at Rotterdam Festival

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‘Nyo Vweta Nafta’ – ‘Made in Mozambique’ short film selected to compete at Rotterdam Festival

11:23 CAT | 22 Dec 2016

terratreme.pt / A scene from 'Nyo Vweta Nafta'

The short film by director Ico Costa ‘Nyo Vweta Nafta’ has been selected for the Rotterdam Film Festival short film competition which starts on January 25th, international Portuguese film agency Portugal Film announced yesterday.

‘Nyo Vweta Nafta’ was filmed entirely in Mozambique, in Inhambane and Maputo and edited by Ico Costa. Director Eduardo Williams won the Golden Leopard of Locarno Festival for Filmmakers of the Present (Cineasti del Present) with his ‘El Auge Humano’, a joint Argentinean-Brazilian-Portuguese production which was also partially shot in Mozambique, Portugal Film said in a statement.

Produced by Terratreme Filmes and Ico Costa, ‘Nyo Vweta Nafta’ narrates several stories that “cross each other in a mosaic of everyday life and the aspirations of its characters”.

One of the stories is a man looking for a girl named Nafta at a market in Maputo. Another story takes place in Inhambane, where Zacarias works as a domestic and dreams of being a singer, while King Best courts his girlfriend. And there is also a story about three boys who extract nectar from coconut trees and fantasize about life elsewhere.

According to the film agency, ‘Nyo Vweta Nafta’ was born from the “extensive and deep work” of Ico Costa in Inhambane and Maputo, where he developed and directed the movie based on his own experience and relationship with the local people.

“I walked through the city, through the fields, along the beaches. I heard conversations in the streets, met people, accompanied kids in their daily wanderings.” Everybody talked about girls and the desire to someday ‘bazar’ [‘get out of there’], get a bit of money doing ‘biscates’ [odd jobs] and go to South Africa to get rich,” the director says.

According to Costa, the movie was “built on small episodes between various characters who are no more than themselves”.

According to the producer, Costa’s short film will premiere worldwide at the Tiger International Short Film Competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, which runs from 25 January to 5 February in the Netherlands.

‘Nyo Vweta Nafta’ is Ico Costa’s fifth short film and his first since finishing his training at Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France.

In addition to this film by Ico Costa, short films ‘A Campo de Aviação’ by Joana Pimenta, ‘Setembro’ by Leonor Noivo will also be shown in the non-competitive ‘Bright Future’ section for first works by new directors, Terratreme films says.

A film by Brazilian Ricardo Alves Jr. called ‘Elon Does not Believe in Death’ has also been selected for the ‘Bright Future’ section.

Source: Lusa