Miguel E“Amilcar”, the world premiere of which will take place in IDFAEnvision Competition presented its trailer. Odd Slice Films is handling international sales for the film about the African anti-colonialist leader.
Director and producer Javier Del Alamo, co-writer Alba Lombardia and editor Federico Delpero Bejar will be present at the premiere in Amsterdam on November 16th.
The film is described as a “poetic documentary essay” about Amilcar Cabral – an agronomist, poet and revolutionary – who led the anti-colonial struggle in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. The film combines archival footage with recent 16mm images to reveal “a visionary whose ideas about justice and dignity remain relevant today.”
Through his political writings, poetry and private letters, the film reimagines Cabral's inner voice to “take viewers on a personal and historical journey”, combining unpublished archives, Portuguese colonial films and revolutionary Guinean footage with newly shot 16mm images. It is “a meditative visual diary that evokes both the public figure and the private individual: a visionary leader and a thinker in private.”
In less than a decade, Cabral united more than a million Guineans in the fight against Portuguese colonial rule, liberating three-quarters of Guinea-Bissau's countryside and inspiring other African countries to rise up and declare their independence. He was assassinated by members of his party PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) in 1973.
The script was written by Lombardy and Ick. Produced by Ick, Del Alamo, Luis Correia and Marie Dumoulin. The film is produced by Mosaic Producciones and co-produced by Les Docs du Nord in France, Lx Filmes in Portugal, Sysifos in Sweden and Korikaxoru in Cape Verde. It was produced with the support of Institut d'Estudis Balearics, CNC, Procirep, Pictanovo, ICIB, ICAA, Creative Europe, ICA and RTP.
