KULA: UMA MEMÓRIA QUIETA, Inadelso Cossa
Documentary, Mozambique, 2014, 14’
Subtitles: English; M/12
After a massive operation to unlock a clandestine network in Maputo, Lourenço Marques then, Langa is arrested by Kula, a brigade of PIDE (International Police and of State Security) that, in the 60s, worked for the Portuguese colonial regime in Mozambique. Then he is questioned and taken to the Machava prison where over a thousand political prisoners were subjected to long hours of interrogation and inhuman torture.
+ NATAL 71, Margarida Cardoso
Documentary, Portugal, 2001, 58’
Subtitles: English; M/12
Natal 71 is the name of a record offered to the military at war in Portuguese colonies that year. O Cancioneiro do Niassa is the name of an audio cassette, recorded secretly by the military over the years of war in Mozambique. The tape is the voice of outrage. The record is a piece of nationalist propaganda. These are memories of a closed, poor and ignorant country, dormant due to the mellow and primary propaganda that tried to hide all conflicts, and that prevented us from thinking and recognizing the cruel and repressive nature of the regime in which we lived. Today we carry in silence, those memories.