Between May and June 2019 I was in Guinea-Bissau for the first time, after leaving in 1991 on my way to Lisbon when I was only 3 years old. My return to the motherland was special, profound and very cosmic. On this return, already 31 years...See moreBetween May and June 2019 I was in Guinea-Bissau for the first time, after leaving in 1991 on my way to Lisbon when I was only 3 years old. My return to the motherland was special, profound and very cosmic. On this return, already 31 years old, I ventured into Cabral and Okinka Pampa lands. Cacheu Cuntum has in image what neither distance nor time have allowed us to understand about the perception that the Guinean-Bissauan people have about their past. The film proposes an audiovisual experience, visual or even just sonorous, of what are the various dimensions that comprise the genetics of the construction of the historical truth as opposed to the reality of the facts, which in turn should humanize and expiate those who have always been represented in place of the oppressed. Written by
Welket Bungué
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