Sleepwalking Land (film)

• Nick Lauro Teresa: Muidinga
• Aladino Jasse: Tuahir
• Ernesto Lemos Macuácua: Siqueleto
• Hélio Fumo: Kindzu
• Laura Soveral: D. Virgínia
• Ilda Gonzalez: Farida

The sleepwalking country (Portuguese Original title: Terra Sonambula ) is a Mozambican - Portuguese director Teresa Prata Brazilian movie from 2007.

Action

In a torn and traumatized by civil war, the boy Muidinga place next to a corpse a diary in which he reads a story of a mother who is imprisoned on a ship and is waiting for the return of her boy. Muidinga believes he is this boy, and sets out to search. He is accompanied by Tuahir, an old man, whom he had met, and who takes care of him. Your trip will also threatened by lack of everything and of many dangers, and they also require their mutual help and tricks to be neither crazy nor give up.

Reception

The quiet, thoughtful film is a screen adaptation of the story of the Mozambican author Mia Couto. Between reality and dream world, the figures move in the tension of latent danger and human warmth, in search of a future in the midst of hopelessness. The criticism took the work to positive.

"The story of a traumatized child as an atmospheric metaphor for a shattered by violence and atrocities country. The visual power and told by funding from the magical realism directorial debut preserved in spite of the tragic theme a warm, shaped by humanity humor. "

The film was shown on a wide variety of film festivals, including the World Film Festival of Montreal, the Festival do Rio de Janeiro, the Fajr Film Festival in Iran, the International Film Festival Mannheim, the IndieLisboa or the Film Festival of Kerala, where the film the FIPRESCI Prize won.