Nuno Miranda
2025, Cap Vert, Portugal, 22min.

Fiction, color/ black and white, Portuguese with English subtitles

The last Harvest explores the identity and longing for home among Cape Verdean immigrants in Lisbon, Portugal, through the intertwined lives of young Gabriel, single mother Isabel, and elderly farmer Firmino. The film portrays how they find "portals" – like a small corn field, traditions, and memories – to connect with their roots while navigating the challenges of urban life and the diaspora.  

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Nuno Miranda is a Cape Verdean filmmaker based in Lisbon, known for exploring themes of identity through a poetic style and narrative. His debut film, Kmêdeus, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020. His recent short,

The Last Harvest, examines Cape Verdean immigrants in Lisbon and the identity “portals” in the diaspora. He is currently developing his first feature, The Flowers of the Dead, furthering his commitment to a unique visual and narrative aesthetic for

Cape Verdean cinema.

Sónia Vaz Borges, Filipa César
2022 Guinea-Bissau, Portugal France, Spain, Germany, 35 min.

Experimental Documentary, color, Portuguese with English subtitles

During Guinea-Bissau’s struggle for independence between 1963 and 1974, led by the agricultural engineer, political organizer, and poet Amílcar Cabral, an ambitious education programme was launched to fight Portuguese colonial power. The revolutionaries built more than 150 schools in the liberated zones, at least one of them was hidden in the tidal mangrove forest, made from natural materials at hand. Inspired by this history, Mangrove School is a collective fabulation developed by Sónia Vaz Borges and Filipa César together with the Malafo community in the Guinean region of Oio. The tabulated scenes and off voices are based on lived experiences as well as a three-week workshop. 

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Sónia Vaz Borges is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is the author of the book Militant Education, Liberation Struggle; Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978, (Peter Lang, 2019). She is currently a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin. 

Filipa César’s works extends from filmmaking, writing and curating assemblies. She is interested in the fictional aspects of film montage, the porous boundaries between moving image and reception, and the economies, poetics and politics inherent to cinema praxis. César’s research on the imaginaries of the Guinea-Bissau liberation movement, as laboratory for decolonizing epistemologies, begun in 2011 and has been developed into many collective projects. 

Léonard Pongo
2024, Belgium, DR Congo, 39min.

Visual Essay, color, no language

Tales from the Source offers a gaze on the landscapes of the Democratic Republic of Congo to translate a sense of its unfathomable power, diversity and knowledge. The scenery is presented as a character acting as a living entity and inhabited by the symbolism of Congolese traditions. The visual approach borrows techniques from multispectral imaging, resulting in an otherworldly experience with surreal lights and colour. Combined with an original musical composition by Bear Bones, Lay Low, we enter into a sensory dialogue with the landscape, an intelligent, ageless being in constant transformation that challenges our perception.

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Léonard Pongo is a photographer and visual artist. He started as a documentary photographer who gradually included snapshots and abstraction into his approach. The Uncanny, shot in Congo DR, has earned him several international awards. Primordial Earth was shown at the Lubumbashi Biennale, the Recontres de Bamako, BOZAR and Mu.ZEE. By exploring the diversity of landscapes in Congo DR, Pongo offers an allegorical imagery of the country. Imbued with a sense of magical beauty and mystical power, the landscape seen through his eyes becomes a setting to rebuild the self, and the earth becomes the source of an awareness from which tradition, philosophy and conceptions of the universe emerge. Pongo is based between Brussels and Kinshasa.