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\n\tMiguel Eek\u2019s \u201cAm\u00edlcar,\u201d which will world premiere in IDFA\u2019s Envision Competition, has debuted its trailer. Odd Slice Films is handling international sales on the film, which is about an African anti-colonialist leader.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe director, producer Javier Del \u00c1lamo, co-scriptwriter Alba Lombard\u00eda and editor Federico Delpero Bejar will attend the premiere in Amsterdam on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe film is described as a \u201cpoetic documentary essay\u201d on Am\u00edlcar Cabral \u2013 agronomist, poet and revolutionary \u2013 who led the anti-colonial struggle in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. The film blends archive footage with recent 16mm imagery to reveal \u201ca visionary whose ideas on justice and dignity remain urgent today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThrough his political writings, poems and private letters, the film re-imagines Cabral\u2019s inner voice to \u201cguide viewers on a personal and historical journey,\u201d blending unpublished archives, Portuguese colonial films, and revolutionary Guinean footage with newly shot 16mm images. It is a \u201cmeditative visual diary that evokes both the public figure and the private man: the visionary leader and the thinker in solitude.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn less than a decade, Cabral united more than a million Guineans in the struggle against Portuguese colonial rule, liberating three-quarters of the countryside of Guinea-Bissau and inspiring other African nations to rebel and claim their independence. He was assassinated by members of his own party, PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), in 1973.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe script is by Lombard\u00eda and Eek. The producers are Eek, Del \u00c1lamo, 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\u2019Estudis Balearics, CNC, Procirep, Pictanovo, ICIB, ICAA, Creative Europe, ICA and RTP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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