Country: Mozambique
Year: 2026
Duration: 26'
In 1992, following the General Peace Agreement and the end of the Mozambican Civil War, the demobilisation of the troops and the handing over of their weapons begins. For a few days, soldiers and guerrilla fighters share a space of transition and change. Vicente, away from his village and his family for 16 years, tries to make sense of the moment he is living through in order to decide what to do with his future.
Biography
film director
André Guiomar
(Portugal), a founding partner of the production company Olhar de Ulisses, participated in Berlinale Talents in 2022 and, in 2023, presented the short film Espinho, co-directed with Mya Kaplan, at the Directors’ Fortnight. He also co-directed Saturno with Luís Costa, which was presented at Guadalajara, and his first feature-length documentary, A Nossa Terra, o Nosso Altar (2020), screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest and won awards at Zinebi in Bilbao and at Porto/Post/Doc. In 2018, he directed Pele de Luz, which won the Jury Prize at Doclisboa.
FILMOGRAFIA
Píton (cm, 2011), Paulo Neves (cm, 2011), Torres (cm, 2013), Pele de Luz (cm, 2018), 2’ Minutos para mudar de vida (serie TV, 2019), A Nossa Terra, O Nosso Altar (2020), Saturno (cm, 2022), Director’s Factory - North Portugal (2023), Espinho (cm, 2023), Ku Handza (2025), Hamerkop (cm, 2026).
Declaration
film director
“This film sets out to explore the emotional honour of the fighters during those days. Through the character of Vicente, we travel through what many thousands of men went through in 1992 at the end of the Civil War, in a story that puts mutual aid, comradeship, survival and companionship to the test.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: André Guiomar. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Miguel da Santa. EDITING: Miguel da Santa, André Guiomar. MUSIC: Dada Garbeck. SOUND: Micas Cumbe. CAST: António Sitoe, Gil Alexandre, Mateus Nhamuche, Vicente Muchongo, Mário Rizzolio, André Guiomar. PRODUCTION: André Guiomar, Luís Costa for Olhar de Ulisses. COPRODUCTION: Mafalda Rebelo, Milton Manhenje for Cimbalino Filmes, Incomati Filmes. CONTACT: Agência - Short Film Agency emanuel@curtas.pt
