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Kalunga

From a place far from home, Lara is driven by enigmatic dreams to fulfill a spiritual birth ritual that will take her along with her dead aunt back to Africa.

  • Lara Sousa
    Director
  • Lara Sousa
    Writer
  • Matheus Mello
    Producer
  • María Alejandra Rojas Garavito
    Score
  • Guillermo Argueta
    Cinematographer
  • Juliano Castro
    Edit
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Student
  • Runtime:
    22 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 15, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Cuba
  • Country of Filming:
    Cuba, Mozambique
  • Language:
    Portuguese, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - EICTV
  • 2019 Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
    Sao Paulo
    Brazil
    September 1, 2019
    Brazilian
    ABD-SP Award Winner
Distribution Information
  • Matheus Mello - Producer
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Lara Sousa

Lara Sousa is a filmmaker from Mozambique. She studied documentary filmmaking at the EICTV (Cuba). Lara's short films have an essayistic and self-referential aesthetic. Her films have been selected for into several festivals, including Dakar’s Biennale 2020. She was selected for ColabNowNow – British Council Digital Arts Residence, as a Southern African storyteller and was recently selected to Berlinale Talent Campus, as well as Talent Campus DocStation. Lara is a fellow of Digital Lab Africa, and a Creative Producers Indaba Fellow. Her first documentary, The Ship and the Sea, was selected for the Berlinale DocStation and won the IDFA Bertha Fund Award at the Durban Film Market in 2020.

FILMOGRAPHY
La Finca del Miedo / The Farm of Fear (2017)
End / Fin (2018)
Kalunga (2019)
Machimbrao - El hombre nuevo (2019)
The Ship and the Sea (2020)

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