The film “Resonance in a Spiral”, by Filipa César and Marinho de Pina, won an award at the Cinéma du Réel festival, which ended on Sunday in Paris, the organization revealed.
The film, which was part of the official competition, received the Libraries Prize, awarded by the festival and sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture.
“Resonance in a Spiral” is a co-production between Portugal, Guinea-Bissau and Germany and is co-signed by visual artist and director Filipa César and Guinean researcher Marinho de Pina.
“The Onshore Media Library in Malafo, a village in Guinea-Bissau, is an archive and a club for ‘agropoetic’ practices. As Amílcar Cabral talks about feminism in a recording, the filmmakers discuss the contradictions of portraying the community,” reads the synopsis of the work.
According to the Portuguese production company Stenar Projects, Mediateca Onshore is a cultural community project started in 2018 by the Guinean cooperative Geba Filmes and which, after a period of itinerancy, has settled in Malafo, in central Guinea-Bissau.
It is there that Mediateca Onshore is developing as a “laboratory for the exchange of art, culture, agroecology and knowledge”, aimed at the community and with the participation of people from different areas, including Filipa César, Marinho de Pina and the Guinean director Sana na N’Hada.
After playing at the Berlin festival in February, “Resonance in a Spiral” was part of the Doc Fortnight festival, organized by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
The 46th Cinéma du Réel, dedicated to documentaries, ended on Sunday at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
