Terra Sonâmbula / Sleepwalking Land

DVD RELEASE: USA

2010-11-05T06:30:00.000-07:00

Release Date

26th October 2010

Global Film Initiative http://www.globalfilm.org

RELEASE: BRAZIL

2010-11-05T06:27:00.000-07:00

Terra Sonâmbula was released in Brazil

at 06th November 2009

Panda Filmes

www.pandafilmes.com.br

BEST FILM (Festival Itinerante da Língua Portuguesa 2010)

2010-06-05T03:35:00.000-07:00

DVD REALESE: Portugal

2010-04-26T10:19:00.000-07:00

Terra Sonâmbula / Sleepwalking Land

was realesed in Portugal by Zon Lusomundo

Languague: Portuguese / Xangana

Subtitles: Portuguese, English and French

With Making Of

Available at FNAC

BEST SCRIPT (Festival de Cinema do Paraná Brasileiro Latino 2009, Brazil)

2009-10-15T06:11:00.000-07:00

BEST FILM (Festival de Cinema do Paraná Brasileiro Latino 2009, Brazil)

2009-10-15T06:09:00.000-07:00

Festival de Cinema Brasileiro Latino 2009, Brazil

2009-10-14T19:18:00.001-07:00

DVD RELEASE: UK

2009-09-26T04:26:00.000-07:00

The film was realesed in UK at

21st SDeptember 2009

by HB Films

Portuguese and Xangana with english subtitles

(amazon.uk)

BERLIN: Premiere at Kino Arsenal

2009-07-27T06:19:00.001-07:00

The Beacon School, New York, USA

2009-06-06T13:37:00.000-07:00

Colóquio Memórias de África, Portimao, Portugal

2009-06-06T13:26:00.001-07:00

Afrika Filmfestival of Leuven 2009, Belgien

2009-06-06T13:22:00.000-07:00

CAIRO: I Festival of Iberia Cinema

2009-02-15T04:59:00.000-08:00

Cinco filmes portugueses serão exibidos

I Festival de Cinema Ibérico começa domingo no Cairo

11.02.2009 - 10h35 Lusa

O I Festival de Cinema Ibérico, que começa domingo no Cairo, Egipto, será inaugurado com a projecção dos filmes “Es para ti! (2004), do director espanhol Bruno Lázaro Pacheco e "Fleurette" (2002) do português Sérgio Tréfaut.

O Instituto Camões informa na sua página na internet que o Festival, organizado pelas embaixadas dos dois países ibéricos, decorrerá no Instituto Cervantes da capital egípcia e terminará a 19 de Fevereiro.

"Os Mutantes", de Teresa Villaverde, e "Rasganço", de Raquel Freire, são alguns dos cinco filmes em português que serão exibidos. Da lista de títulos lusófonos consta ainda "Terra Sonâmbula", de Teresa Prata, e "A costa dos murmúrios", de Margarida Cardoso.

O escritor moçambicano Mia Couto declarou-se "feliz" pela exibição do filme "Terra Sonâmbula", inspirado no seu romance com o mesmo nome, no I Festival de Cinema Ibérico.

"Fico feliz porque concebi o livro. Mas fico sobretudo feliz pela realizadora portuguesa, pela excelente qualidade com que fez a transposição livro-filme", realçou.

Para o escritor moçambicano, "o mérito de Teresa Prata pelo seu trabalho cinematográfico na adaptação é ainda mais especial, tendo em conta que o filme foi produzido com poucos recursos e envolveu actores amadores".

RELEASE: USA (2)

2009-01-22T14:11:00.000-08:00

NEW YORK TIMES by Nathan Lee

2009-01-22T14:02:00.000-08:00

MOVIE REVIEW

Sleepwalking Land (2007)

In Mozambique, a Road to Self-Discovery

By NATHAN LEE

Published: January 14, 2009

"Sleepwalking Land" opens like a Mozambican riff on Cormac McCarthy's despairing, post-apocalyptic novel, "The Road." An old man (Aladino Jasse) and a young orphan (Nick Lauro Teresa) walk a parched road, keeping an eye out for marauding gangs. They come across a flame-scarred bus stuffed with burnt corpses and make it their home, venturing out to forage for scraps of food in the ravaged landscape.

The boy discovers a notebook left behind by a dead man (Hélio Fumo) whose village was destroyed by the gangs. Its pages tell of his loss and exile, and of a woman (Ilda Gonzalez) who is searching for her lost son. The orphan asks, could it be me? And as in "The Road," he journeys toward the sea to discover his fate.

From this bleak scenario, based on a novel by Mia Couto, the filmmaker Teresa Prata creates an affecting portrait of life during wartime. Ms. Prata, a skilled storyteller with a clear, unsentimental eye, neatly balances large-scale horror with a small-scale point of view charged with simple, direct feeling, deftly interweaving the present-tense narrative with the tale from the journal.

"Sleepwalking Land" has a dreamlike texture and intimations of magic realism, but its confrontation with the experience of war bespeaks a wide-awake mind.

BEST SCRIPT (Bursa International Film Festival 2008, Turkey)

2008-12-10T14:43:00.001-08:00

SAVE THE CHILDREN (African Film Festival of Verona 2008, Italy)

2008-12-09T03:45:00.000-08:00

Unfortunatly I do not have any photo.

MAINZ: Ciclo África Lusófona e Cinema Literário Brasileiro

2008-10-19T08:20:00.000-07:00

Terra Sonâmbula will be in Mainz, Germany at

17th November 2008

http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/images/stories/agenda/mainz_ciclo_africa.pdf

KERALA PRESS: THE HINDU (Conference about film and resistance)

2008-10-18T11:58:00.000-07:00

Call to resist fascist narrative

New thought: Senior journalist and film-maker Sashi Kumar speaking at a seminar at the IFFK in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.

THIRUVANANTHPURAM: Film-maker and chairman of the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, Sashi Kumar has said that “cinema of resistance has to resist the fascist narrative defined in Europeanised ideologies.”

Participating in a discussion on ‘Is cinema of resistance possible’ organised as part of the ongoing International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) here on Tuesday, Mr. Sashi Kumar said by this statement he was not negating the vibrant story-telling folk traditions across the globe. But the narrative films like the ones produced in the Hollywood and Bollywood, which entangled audience and made them supine before the screen, were at the end of the day fascist and should be resisted.

Read full article at:

www.thehindu.com/2007/12/12/stories/2007121254570500.htm

BRAZILIAN NEWSPAPER: O GLOBO by André Miranda

2008-10-16T13:44:00.000-07:00

Livro do Moçambicano Mia Couto na tela do Festival do Rio

por André Miranda

Teresa Prata nasceu em Portugal, passou a infância em Moçambique, a adolescência no Rio e em Minas Gerais, voltou a Portugal para fazer faculdade, em Coimbra, e hoje mora na Alemanha. Como esses deslocamentos afetaram seu cinema é o que poderá ser visto hoje pelo público da mostra Expectativa, na sessão de "Terra sonâmbula", seu primeiro longa. Ela e a atriz Ilda González (juntas na foto de Leonardo Aversa) vieram para a cidade a fim de apresentar o filme e tentar aumentar o intercâmbio entre as cinematografias de língua portuguesa.

Baseado no livro homônimo do moçambicano Mia Couto, "Terra sonâmbula" conta a história de um menino que, em busca de sua família, descobre um diário escrito por uma mulher que procura seu filho perdido. As duas trajetórias, a do menino e a do diário, são contadas em paralelo. A diretora se recorda de que descobriu o livro em 1995, quando acabara de começar um curso de cinema em Berlim e ainda não sabia falar alemão. Depois de lê-lo, mandou uma carta para Mia Couto.

Read full article at:

oglobo.globo.com/blogs/cinema/post.asp?t=livro_do_mocambicano_mia_ couto_na_tela_do... - 37k - Em cache

FESTIVALS

2008-10-14T04:25:00.000-07:00

Montreal International Film Festival (Focus on World Cinema 2007) WORLD PREMIERE

Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Brazil (Expectations 2007)

Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, Germany (International Discoveries 2007)

Kerala International Film Festival, India (in competition 2007) won FIPRESCI AWARD (International Film Critics Federation) for the best film in competition

Pune International Film Festival, India (in competition 2008) won BEST DIRECTOR AWARD

Fjar International Film Festival, Tehran, Iran (in competition 2008)

Birds Eye View Festival, London, United Kingdom (2008)

Natfilm Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (World Wide Programme 2008)

Famafest, Portugal (in competition 2008) won PRÉMIO DA LUSOFONIA for the best book adaptation

African Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan, Italy (in competition 2008) won SIGNIS AWARD

Afrikamera, Warsaw, Poland (2008)

Indie Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (National Competition 2008) won AUDIENCE AWARD and a SPECIAL MENTION of Amnesty International

Zanzibar International Film Festival, Tanzania (2008)

Cines del Sur, Granada, Spain (Itinerários 2008)

Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia (African Cinema 2008)

Africa In The Picture, Amsterdam, Holland (Highlights Motherland 2008)

Zimbabwe International Film Festival, Zimbabwe (2008)

Films From The South, Oslo, Norway (2008)

Cartage International Film Festival (International Section 2008)

Calcutta International Film Festival, India (International Section 2008)

African Film Festival of Verona, Italy (in competition 2008) won SAVE THE CHILDREN WARD

Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt (Black Pearl 2008)

Bursa International Film Festival, Turkey (in competition 2008) won BEST SCRIPT AWARD

Pan African Film & Arts Festival, London, UK (2008)

Cinemafrica Filmfestival, Stockholm, Sweden (2009)

Pan African Film & Arts Festival, Los Angeles, USA (2009)

Afrika Filmfestival of Leuven, Belgian (2009)

African Film Festival of Tarifa, Spain (2009)

TONIGHT MOVIE by Theresa Smith

2008-10-05T15:53:00.000-07:00

Movie Review - Sleepwalking Land

Saving grace of war lies in the optimism of youth, aided by a touch of magic

Set in war-torn Mozambique, at the height of civil war, this is a sad and undemanding little story that underscores the madness that is conflict in Africa.

Based on Mia Coutou's Portuguese novel, Terra Sonâmbula, it was a seven-year-long labour of love for Brazilian director Teresa Prata, who used a mix of novice and professional actors with dash of magical realism straight out of the book.

In so doing, she has created a vision of the country as a sleepwalking land, instead of the usual carnage-ridden, war-torn Africa created in contemporary cinema.

Though not quite on a par with the in- your-face horror of Shooting Dogs, Sleepwalking Land is a war story of a different kind. It shows the dreadful and sad effects of living in constant fear on a range of people.

Read full article at:

www.tonight.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=427&fArticleId=4291983

BURSA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008, Turkey

2008-10-05T05:43:00.000-07:00

AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL OF VERONA 2008, Italy

2008-10-05T05:42:00.002-07:00

It will be held in November 2008.

Until now there is no web page.

CALCUTTA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008, India

2008-10-05T05:42:00.001-07:00

It will be held in November 2008.

Until now there is no web page.

CARTHAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008, Tunisia

2008-10-05T05:41:00.000-07:00

It will be held in October 2008.

Until now there is no web page.

FILMS FROM THE SOUTH 2008, Oslo, Norway

2008-10-05T05:40:00.000-07:00

See festival web page:

www.filmfrasor.no/filmbase/2008/terra-sonambula

AFRICA IN THE PICTURE 2008, Amsterdam, Holand

2008-10-05T05:39:00.002-07:00

See festival web page:

www.africainthepicture.nl/en/program/filmsA-Z/60/Terra_Sonâmbula_-_ Sleepwalking_land.html

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008, Australia

2008-10-05T05:39:00.001-07:00

See festival web page:

www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/films?film_id=9739

CINES DEL SUR 2008, Granada, Spain

2008-10-05T05:38:00.003-07:00

See festival web page:

www.cinesdelsur.com/itinerarios.php?setlang=en

AFRIKAMERA 2008, Warsaw, Poland

2008-10-05T05:38:00.001-07:00

See festival web page:

www.afrykamera.pl/pl/?req=news&newsId=3

AFRICA ASIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MILAN 2008, Italy

2008-10-05T05:37:00.001-07:00

See festival web page:

www.festivalcinemaafricano.org/eng/index.php?pag=vis_film&id_film=468

NATFILM FESTIVAL 2008, Copenhagen, Denmak

2008-10-05T05:35:00.002-07:00

See festival site:

www.natfilm.dk/n/index.lasso?tt=f&s=2008002&n=7886&-session... - 24k -

BIRDS EYE VIEW FESTIVAL 2008, London, United Kingdom

2008-10-05T05:35:00.001-07:00

See festival web site:

birds-eye-view.co.uk/2008/sleepwalking.htm

BRASIL: Escola de Cinema Darcy Ribeiro

2008-10-05T05:33:00.000-07:00

KERALA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2007, India

2008-10-05T05:23:00.002-07:00

MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2007, Canada

2008-10-05T05:23:00.001-07:00

See festival line up:

www.ffm-montreal.org/Horaire.pdf

RIO DE JANEIRO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2007, Brazil

2008-10-05T05:16:00.000-07:00

MANNHEIM - HEIDELBERG FILM FESTIVAL 2007, Germany

2008-10-05T05:14:00.000-07:00

See festival web page:

www.mannheim-filmfestival.com/en/Ueber_das_Festival/Archive/Filmfestival _2007.../Terra_sonambula/

PUNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008, India

2008-10-05T05:12:00.000-07:00

INDIE LISBOA 2008, Lisbon, Portugal

2008-10-05T05:11:00.001-07:00

See festival wed page:

www.indielisboa.com/amit/eng/page.php?171 - 26k

ARTE TELEVISION (Germany and France)

2008-10-04T05:56:00.000-07:00

The film was shown on ARTE TELEVISION at

13th August 2008 22:45

and

19th August 2008 14:45

COLOGNE: Kolloquium Mosambik - Tradition und Neuanfang

2008-10-04T05:52:00.000-07:00

See the Colloquium line up at:

www.dasp.eu.com/DASP%20Mosambik%20Programm.pdf

PALESTINE: Portuguese Film Week

2008-10-04T05:47:00.000-07:00

The film was at Cinematek Al-Kasaba, Ramallah

between 07th and 13th August 2008

COPENHAGEN: Portuguese Fim Week

2008-10-04T05:45:00.000-07:00

See Denmark film library program:

www.dfi.dk/cinemateket/NyhederFraCinemateket/cinemadirecto.htm

RELEASE: USA (1)

2008-10-04T05:42:00.000-07:00

The film will be released in USA and CANADA in

14 th January 2009

Distributor: The Global Film Initiative

The Global Film Initiative Announces Global Lens 2009 Film Lineup—North American and U.S. premieres headline series

The Global Film Initiativeannounced today ten award-winning narrative, feature films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Morocco and Mozambique that will headline the Global Lens 2009 film series.

"This year's lineup of films, from Central Asia to Latin America, is artistically strong and well balanced—it's one of our best yet," saysSusan Weeks Coulter, Board Chair of The Global Film Initiative.

Global Lens 2009 features three North American premieres, The Photograph, Sleepwalking Land and Songs From the Southern Seas, and one U.S. premiere, I Am From Titov Veles. Also included are critical favorites Getting Home (Ecumenical Jury Prize, Berlin International Film Festival), Mutum (Directors' Fortnight) and Possible Lives (Pavilion les Cinémas du Sud, Cannes Film Festival).

I Am From Titov Veles and Possible Lives were produced with support from The Global Film Initiative's granting program. I Am From Titov Veles is also Macedonia's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 2008 Academy Awards.

Global Lens, now in its sixth year, will premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on January 14, 2009 before embarking on a yearlong tour of over forty cities across the United States. For screening-dates and locations, please visit the Global Lens calendar.

Global Lens 2009 films

RELEASE: SOUTH AFRICA

2008-10-04T05:41:00.000-07:00

The film was released in South Africa (Cape Town) at

07th March 2008

Distributor: ComArt Films

RELEASE: MOZAMBIQUE

2008-10-04T05:38:00.000-07:00

The film was released in Mozambique at

30th May 2008

Distributor: LUSOMUNDO

RELEASE: PORTUGAL

2008-10-04T05:36:00.000-07:00

The film was release in Portugal at

08th May 2008

Distributor LUSOMUNDO

PORTUGUESE RADIO: TSF by Carlos Vaz Marques

2008-10-02T03:05:00.000-07:00

Listen the interview at:

http://tsf.sapo.pt/podcast/files/pet_20080505.mp3

TECNHICAL SPECS

2008-09-30T20:08:00.002-07:00

Original Title TERRA SONÂMBULA

English Title SLEEPWALKING LAND

German Title SCHLAFWANDELNDE LAND

genre FICTION

year 2007 (Premiere at Montreal International Film Festival)

35mm; color, 24fps, 1:1,85, dolby surround 5.1

running time 96min

languages PORTUGUESE and XANGANA

shot at SOUTH OF MOZAMBIQUE

REALEASE DATES

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CANADA August 2007 (Montréal International Film Festival)

BRAZIL September 2007 (Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival)

GERMANY October 2007 (Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival

INDIA December 2007 (Kerala International Film Festival)

TEHRAN February 2008 (Fjar International Film Festival)

UK March 2008 (Festival Birds Eye View)

SOUTH AFRICA March 2008 (Distributor: ComArt Films)

DENMARK March 2008 (Natfilm Festival)

ITALY April 2008 (African Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan)

POLAND April 2008 (Festival Afrikamera)

PORTUGAL April 2008 (Festival Indie Lisboa)

MOZAMBIQUE May 2008 (Distributor: Lusomundo)

TANZANIA June 2008 (Zanzibar International Film Festival)

SPAIN June 2008 (Festival Cines del Sur)

AUSTRALIA July 2008 (Melbourne International Film Festival)

ANGOLA July 2008 (Distributor: Lusomundo)

PALESTINE August 2008 (Film Library: Portuguese Film Week)

HOLAND September 2008 (Festival Africa In The Picture)

ZIMBABWE September 2008 (Zimbabwe International Film Festival)

NORWAY October 2008 (Festival Films From The South)

TUNISIA October 2008 (Carthage International Film Festival)

EGYPT November 2008 (Cairo International Film Festival)

TURKEY November 2008 (Bursa International Film Festival)

USA January 2009 (Distributor: Global Film Initiative)

SWEDEN February 2009 (Cinemafrica Filmfestival)

TRAILER

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POSTER

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HONOR MENTION of Amnsty International (Indie Lisboa 2008, Portugal)

2008-09-28T13:51:00.000-07:00

AUDIENCE AWARD (Indie Lisboa 2008, Portugal)

2008-09-28T13:50:00.001-07:00

LUSOFONIA AWARD (Famafest 2008)

2008-09-28T13:49:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately I don't have any photo.

SIGNIS AWARD ( African Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan 2008, Italy)

2008-09-28T13:45:00.001-07:00

MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2007, Canada

2008-09-28T13:45:00.000-07:00

BEST DIRECTOR (Pune International Film Festival 2008, India)

2008-09-28T13:17:00.000-07:00

FIPRESCI AWARD (Kerala International Film Festival 2007, India)

2008-09-28T13:14:00.000-07:00

www.iffk.keralafilm.com/award2007.htm - 13k

STANDFOTOS (4)

2008-09-28T13:13:00.004-07:00

PORTUGUESE TELEVISION: FOTOGRAMA

2008-09-28T13:13:00.003-07:00

DEAR CINEMA by Juru Abraham

2008-09-28T13:13:00.001-07:00

Terra Sonâmbula: A lovely film based on a major African novel

Not many filmgoers may be aware of Portuguese director Teresa Prata’s Sleepwalking Land. A film that took Ms Prata some 7 years to complete, it is yet to be extensively screened beyond the international film festival circuit. The movie is evidently Ms Prata’s labor of love after she spotted a goldmine in Mia Couto’s Portuguese novel Sleepwalking Land published in 1992. The novel is now widely recognized as a major literary work from and on Africa in recent years. Extracts (translated into English) that I read indicate a remarkable, powerful literary work, falling within the realm of magical realism. It was indeed a work screaming to be captured on celluloid with the help of special effects and convincing local acting talent. The young lady grabbed the opportunity to shoot the film in Mozambique and do the special effects in Portugal. Today, her interesting movie adaptation is helping publicize Mia Couto’s writing even further and is bringing global attention to both the Mozambican and the Portuguese cinema. 

Sleepwalking Land is one of the most interesting and realistic films on Africa. In the past two months, the film has won the international FIPRESCI award for the best film in competition at the recent Kerala film festival, and an award for best director at the lesser known Pune film festival.  

Read full article at:

http://dearcinema.com/terra-sonambula-a-lovely-film-based-on-a-major-african-novel/

FIPRESCI by Sheila Johnston

2008-09-28T13:12:00.000-07:00

"Sleepwalking Land": _{A Walk With Love and Death} _{By Sheila Johnston}

Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula) represents two exceptional debuts. It is a first film by Teresa Prata, based on a first novel, by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto. Published in 1992, the book was chosen by an international panel as one of the twelve best African books of the 20th century (it was, however, not translated into English until 2006). And Prata does it proud in her simple yet poetic adaptation.

Set at the end of the country's vicious, 17-year-long civil war, Sleepwalking Land consists of two parallel and, it seems at first, only loosely related storylines. In the framing narrative, a small boy and an old man wander through a desolate, dangerous country whose soul has been sucked out by decades of violence. The boy, Muidinga, is an orphan; the man, Tuahir, is his protector, though he has lost his belief in human goodness and constantly cautions his companion against forming emotional attachments.

Read full article at:

 www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2007/kerala/sleepwalking_land_sjohnston.htm

VARIETY by Jay Weisseberg

2008-09-28T13:11:00.000-07:00

Sleepwalking Land

Terra Sonambula (Portugal-Mozambique)

By JAY WEISSBERG

The unquantifiable toll of Mozambique's long civil war suffuses "Sleepwalking Land," an emotionally affecting tale-within-a-tale helmed and scripted by Brazilian-born Teresa Prata.

Originating with the wanderings of a young boy and an older man before spinning into a story that adds layers of resonance, this long-gestating pic works as a parable for a society struggling to cope with its evisceration. While the simple, not simplistic, stories may try some viewers with their apparent naivete, this is a fine fest item deserving of further recognition.

Read the full article at:

http://wwwvariety.com/article/VE1117935220.html

STANDFOTOS (3)

2008-09-28T13:10:00.000-07:00

STANDFOTOS (2)

2008-09-28T12:24:00.000-07:00

STANDFOTOS (1)

2008-08-06T05:01:00.000-07:00

DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY

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Teresa Prata spent her childhood in Mozambique and adolescence in Brazil, where she studied piano for 6 years.

She moved back to Portugal and graduated in Biology at the University of Coimbra. During that time, she attended the Theatre Course at CITAC and became a member of the ensemble there. She also wrote and hosted the radio show ‘Manifesto Arte’ for the Coimbra University Radio, directed several experimental videos and created a range of art installations. Her video performance ‘Canto Teogónico’ received a special mention at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival (1991).

She also won the Best Cinematography Award at the Festival del Cine Experimental de Madrid (1999) for her work as director of photography for ‘Totensang’ by Clara Lopes Rubio.

She graduated in screenwriting and directing at the German Film and Television School (Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin) in Berlin. Terra Sonâmbula / Sleepwalking Land is her first feature film.

Films (screenwriter and director):

Canto Teogónico (1991) (experimental video) won a special mention at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival (1991)

Uma Questão de Vida ou Morte (1994) (short film)

Mil Olhos, O Sonhador do Oeste (1996) (short film)

Leopoldo (1999) (short film)

Partem Tão Tristes, Os Tristes (1999) (short film)

Terra Sonâmbula / Sleepwalking Land (2007) (first feature film)

ACTORS AND CREW

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Leading Actors

Muidinga NICK LAURO TERESA

Tuahir ALADINO JASSE

Kindzu HÉLIO FUMO

Farida ILDA GONZALEZ

Supporting Actors

Siqueleto ERNESTO LEMOS MACUACUA

Joseldo Bastante FILIMONE MEIGOS

Tia Euzinha ANA MAGAIA

D. Virgínia LAURA SOVERAL

Surendra ISSUF MOHAMED

Written and directed by

TERESA PRATA

Based on the novel by

MIA COUTO

Financing

MC – MINISTÉRIO DA CULTURA

ICA – INSTITUTO DO CINEMA E AUDIOVISUAL

RTP – RÁDIO TELEVISÃO PORTUGUESA, S.A.

ZDF / ARTE

INSTITUTO CAMÕES

Production

FILMES DE FUNDO (Portugal)

Co-production

ÉBANO MULTIMÉDIA (Mozambique)

ZDF / ARTE (Germany)

Art Director CAROLINE ALDER

Costume Designer ISABEL PERES

Director of Photography DOMINIQUE GENTIL

Sound CARLOS ALBERTO LOPES

Composer ALEX GORETZKI

Editor PAULO REBELO / JACQUES WITTA

Sound Designer ELSA FERREIRA

Sound Mixture BRANKO NESKOV

SYNOPSIS

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Mozambique, during the civil war. Muidinga, a boy with big dreamy eyes, often hears the sound of the ocean. This rekindles his hope of finding his family again, whom he believes is at the coast.

The boy finds a diary beside a corpse and begins reading it. It is the story of Farida who lives in an old ship anchored out at sea, and who is searching for her own son. Muidinga convinces himself that he is the boy in the diary and decides to search for her. He sets off with Tuahir, a tough old storyteller who finds it difficult to show his growing affection to Muidinga. He even becomes jealous that the boy might soon find his family.

The journey is hard. They move between war remains and refugees in state of delirium. They only have themselves, the stories Tuahir recounts and the entries in the diary that Muidinga reads at night. The road they have taken becomes a magical one: it understands their desires and moves them from one place to another and doesn’t let them die until they reach the so longed ocean.