Release Date
26th October 2010
by
Global Film Initiative http://www.globalfilm.org
Friday 5 November 2010
RELEASE: BRAZIL
Terra Sonâmbula was released in Brazil
at 06th November 2009
by
Panda Filmes
www.pandafilmes.com.br
Saturday 5 June 2010
Monday 26 April 2010
DVD REALESE: Portugal
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
Thursday 15 October 2009
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Saturday 26 September 2009
DVD RELEASE: UK
The film was realesed in UK at
21st SDeptember 2009
by HB Films
Portuguese and Xangana with english subtitles
(amazon.uk)
Monday 27 July 2009
Saturday 6 June 2009
Sunday 15 February 2009
CAIRO: I Festival of Iberia Cinema
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".
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".
Thursday 22 January 2009
NEW YORK TIMES by Nathan Lee
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.
Wednesday 10 December 2008
Tuesday 9 December 2008
SAVE THE CHILDREN (African Film Festival of Verona 2008, Italy)
Unfortunatly I do not have any photo.
Sunday 19 October 2008
MAINZ: Ciclo África Lusófona e Cinema Literário Brasileiro
Terra Sonâmbula will be in Mainz, Germany at
17th November 2008
http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/images/stories/agenda/mainz_ciclo_africa.pdf
Saturday 18 October 2008
KERALA PRESS: THE HINDU (Conference about film and resistance)
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.
Thursday 16 October 2008
BRAZILIAN NEWSPAPER: O GLOBO by André Miranda
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
Tuesday 14 October 2008
FESTIVALS
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)
Sunday 5 October 2008
TONIGHT MOVIE by Theresa Smith
| 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.
AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL OF VERONA 2008, Italy
It will be held in November 2008.
Until now there is no web page.
CALCUTTA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008, India
It will be held in November 2008.
Until now there is no web page.
CARTHAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008, Tunisia
It will be held in October 2008.
Until now there is no web page.
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