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AMILCAR. THE AFRICAN UTOPIA MAKER

By Miguel EEK

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Documentary - Development 2022

Amílcar Cabral (1924-1973): visionary, poet, revolutionary, guerilla leader...a simple African man. A poetic film work with a touch of a thriller to it, focusing on the value of culture and Cabral utopian vision.

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FEST - New Directors New Films Festival 2018
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    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SPAIN, GUINEA-BISSAU, FRANCE, CUBA
    • Languages
    • CATALAN, PORTUGUESE, FRENCH, ENGLISH, SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Miguel EEK
    • Writer(s)
    • Miguel EEK, Alba LOMBARDÍA
    • Producer(s)
    • Marie DUMOULIN (Les Docs du Nord), Marta CASTELLS (Mosaic), Miguel EEK (Mosaic), Mario ADAMSON (Sisyfos Film), João MATOS (Terratreme Filmes)
    • Synopsis
    • Amílcar Cabral: agronomist, poet, utopian visionary…also known as the African Che Guevara. He led the anti-colonial struggle against Portugal in Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.

      Young Amílcar, an agronomy student in Lisbon, comes into contact with Africans from other colonies. They become aware of the degree to which the Portuguese state has control over its colonies. It is a period in which he writes his first poems, experiences a political awakening, and falls in love. The repression in his homeland is intensifying. Cabral understands that it is time for action.

      With the founding of the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) Amílcar takes on the challenge of uniting two countries with very different cultures in a joint battle. He leads the guerilla movement and develops his utopian model: a state parallel to that of Portugal but with its own judicial, executive, health, economic and educational system. Aware that the battle alone would not be sufficient for de-colonization, he seeks international support which puts PAIGC on the map. European filmmakers give attention and voice to the armed conflict. The pressure on Portugal is building.

      The war breaks out on different fronts: the battlefield, the media outlets and the intelligence services. The PIDE (the Portuguese secret police) manages to completely infiltrate the PAIGC. Tension increases between the Cape Verdians and the Guineans and Amílcar lives an increasingly confined life to protect himself from the internal conspiracies that have infiltrated the Party. In 1973, eight months before Guinea gains its independence, Amílcar is assassinated.

      Paradoxically, numerous sculptures of Cabral are still scattered throughout the land, abandoned, and observing a politically failed and disoriented country. The brilliant destiny of this visionary’s ideas seems to have dissolved in the dust covering those statues.
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