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Lucefece: Where there is no vision, the people will perish

Lucefece: Where there is no vision, the people will perish · Lucefece: Where there is no vision, the people will perish

Ricardo Leite

2023, PRT, 86’, M12


Cinema Falado 2023 / Há Filmes na Baixa!

21 Nov 2023 · Batalha Centro de Cinema - Room 2 · 21H00

23 Nov 2023 · Batalha Centro de Cinema - Room 2 · 14H30

13 Dec 2023 · Passos Manuel · 22H00


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After Ricardo Leite presented the beautiful As Maçãs Azuis (about the journey and films of Edila Gaitonde, an anti-colonial activist for the liberation of "Portuguese India") at the festival last year, he returns this year with a new feature film, Lucefece. Shot entirely on film over the last 20 years, which the director himself revealed by hand, this is a film-essay in which the personal and the collective, the political and the intimate merge. Ricardo Leite draws on his childhood memories and cross-references them with conversations with his father, an ex-combatant in the colonial war who was later imprisoned. An autobiographical dive into the past and a portrait of a country haunted by the ghosts of war.