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NHANDJANDJI

By Licínio DE AZEVEDO

UKBAR FILMES - as PROD

Action/Adventure - Development 2021

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Documentary
- Countries
- PORTUGAL, MOZAMBIQUE
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Licínio DE AZEVEDO
- Producer(s)
- Pandora DA CUNHA TELLES (UKBAR FILMES), Pablo IRAOLA (UKBAR FILMES)
- Synopsis
- Quelimane, the fourth largest city in Mozambique, stands out from other cities for its unique type of public transport: the bicycle. Due to the insuffiency of public transportation and the necessity to move around town, this well-known taxi bikes drivers became crucial and structured how the city lives and breathes. In a undulating cinematic ride, our main character Nhandjandji lead us through the mirabolante but precarious daily life adventures of these bike drivers. Due to this crazy and frenetic taxi system, parallel business such as public markets, mealplaces, vacant lots and repair shops flourish in every corner. They work, eat, talk, read and even sleep on theirs metal engines. We use to create cities adapted for bycicles, but in this peculiar story, bycicles created the city instead.