UPHEAVAL
It's essential to generate life, dialogue, understanding, and celebrate humanity. In times of widespread pandemic, raising questions about the preservation of democracy, the integrity of public health and our own notions of individuality, we are dragged into a process of change. 'Upheaval' is a meeting between the artist Welket Bungué, and the parliamentary politician Joacine Katar Moreira. Here, they question the essence of their crafts, making an unexpected paradigm of imminent revolution resound.
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Welket BunguéDirectorBastien, Arriaga, Jah Intervention, I Am Not Pilatus
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Welket BunguéWriterBastien, Arriaga, Jah Intervention, I Am Not Pilatus
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Joacine Katar MoreiraKey Cast
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Welket BunguéKey CastBerlin Alexanderplatz, Body Electric, Bastien
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Alesa HereroKey Cast
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Kussa ProductionsProducerArriaga, Bastien, I Am Not Pilatus, Buôn
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Teatro do Bairro AltoProducer
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Vanessa FernandesDirector of Photography
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Miguel CoelhoSound Director
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Mû MbanaMusic
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Leonardo MouramateusEditorAntónio, 1, 2, 3
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Welket BunguéSound DesignExPerimetral, Jah Intervention
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Project Title (Original Language):Mudança
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
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Genres:Bio-drama, Dance Film
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Runtime:27 minutes 14 seconds
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Completion Date:December 2, 2020
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Production Budget:3,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:Portugal
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Country of Filming:Brazil, Portugal
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Language:Portuguese
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:2.66:1
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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71st Berlin Intl. Film Fest - BerlinaleBerlin
Germany
March 1, 2021
International Premiere
Official Selection - Forum Expanded -
65th BFI London Film FestivalLondon
United Kingdom
October 6, 2021
Great Britain Premiere
Official Selection -
37th Short Film Festival HamburgHamburg
Germany
June 1, 2021
Official Selection -
10th Luxor African Film FestivalLuxor
Egypt
March 29, 2021
African Premiere
Official Selection - "Diaspora" Competition -
14th Cine Esquema Novo – Arte Audiovisual BrasileiraPorto Alegre
Brazil
April 10, 2021
Brazilian Premiere
Mostra Artista Convidado Welket Bungué -
18th IndieLisboa IFFLisboa
Portugal
August 31, 2021
Portuguese Premiere
Official Selection -
3rd Quibdó Africa Film FestivalPointe-Noire
Congo
September 14, 2021
Official Selection -
6th Annual Afrikana Independent Film FestivalRichmond, VIRGINIA
United States
September 16, 2021
Official Selection -
12th Silicon Valley African Film FestivalSan Jose, CALIFORNIA
United States
October 9, 2021
North American Premiere
Official Selection -
16th ARICA Festival de Películas Nativas | AWARDEDArica
Chile
October 27, 2021
Chilean Premiere
Jury's Special Prize - Afrika Shorts -
17th Panorama Internacional Coisa de CinemaSalvador, BAHIA
Brazil
December 6, 2021
Official Selection -
14th Festival Internacional de Cine Africano de Argentina - FICAA |AWARDEDBuenos Aires
Argentina
November 1, 2021
Argentinian Premiere
Official Selection - Grand Prize Best Short Film -
25th American Black Film Festival - ABFFMiami, FL
United States
November 4, 2021
Official Selection - World Showcase -
8th Porto/Post/Doc Film & Media FestivalPorto
Portugal
November 22, 2021
Official Selection - Cinema Falado -
27th Caminhos do Cinema Português IFFCoimbra
Portugal
November 7, 2021
Official Selection - Outros Olhares -
21st Afrykamera African Film FestivalWarsaw, Kraków
Poland
December 10, 2021
Polish Premiere
Official Selection -
13th Festival Internacional de Cina de Cali - FICCALICali
Colombia
November 19, 2021
Official Selection - African Vanguards -
16th International Short & Independent Film Festival, Dhaka 2022Dhaka
Bangladesh
February 25, 2022
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
Official Selection -
CinEXU 2022Lisboa
Portugal
February 21, 2022
ESC -Espaço Santa Catarina
Curated by Grupo EDUCAR -
KUGOMA - Mozambique Cinema ForumMaputo
Mozambique
August 29, 2022
Official Selection -
RTF Realtime International Film FestivalLagos
Nigeria
August 19, 2022
Nominee DAVID IMOH SUNDAY SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM
Official Selection -
19th Afrika Film Festival KölnKöln
Germany
September 29, 2022
Official Selection -
20º dança em foco - Festival Internacional de Vídeo & DançaRio de Janeiro
Bouvet Island
November 7, 2022
Official Selection -
4th Annual Afro Civilization Fair
United States
May 11, 2024
Created By Marian Yesufu
Official Selection
Distribution Information
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KUSSA ProductionsSales AgentCountry: WorldwideRights: All Rights
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Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video ArtDistributorCountry: WorldwideRights: Internet, Video on Demand, Pay Per View, Theatrical, Paid TV
Welket Bungué is a Berlin-based actor, born in Guinea-Bissau in 1988. His cross-cultural education from Africa, Europe, and Brazil made him into a cross-national, multi-talented artist. He is co-founder of the production company KUSSA, holds a degree in Theater Acting (ESTC / Lisbon) and a postgraduate degree in Performance Art (UniRio / Brazil). In 2023 Welket was an ambassador for the Face to Face with German Films Campaign as a filmmaker and actor.
Welket's artistry is influenced by anti-colonial and Afrocentric perspectives, leveraging one's natural skills to inspire human growth and potential. His films compose an ecosystem of creative freedom, an invitation to cast off from old hardened narratives and into a space of thinking, resilience, and cross-border identity. Like a body in transit, his commitment to the storytelling art holds the belief of a future in which we can dialogue and find one another. Welket is an artist featured by the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin), and since 2021 his films are part of the institution's collection.
Welket's films have circulated internationally through numerous film festivals such as Berlinale, ABFF (USA), Africlap (France), Zanzibar IFF, Afrikamera (Berlin), BFI London and Sheffield DocFest (UK), IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Curta Cinema IFF (RJ, Brazil), as well as the Stockholm Dansfilmfestival. Welket repertoire on filmmaking reunites more than 25 creations, including the short film titles Calling Cabral, Mudança, Jah Intervention, I am Not Pilatus, Arriaga, and Bastien.
As an actor, Welket has been featured in over 40 films and series, including Marcelo Caetano's highly acclaimed coming-of-age drama Body Electric, Marcelo Gomes' historical drama Joaquim, and Laís Bodanzky's Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Welket starred alongside actors Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart in David Cronenberg's film Crimes of the Future, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022.
In 2020, Welket starred in Burhan Qurbani's new version of Berlin Alexanderplatz, where his performance earned him a "Silver Bear" nomination at the Berlin International Film Festival, a "Best Lead Actor" nomination at the LOLA Awards of the German Film Academy (equivalent to the OSCARS), and the Aluminum Horse Award for "Best Actor" at the Stockholm International Film Festival.
In 2022, he took part of the International Jury of Ghent IFF, chaired by the British director Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) amongst Daniel Hart (A Ghost Story, The Green Knight), Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze (What Do We See When We Look At The Sky), Nico Leunen (Ad Astra, Beautiful Boy, The Broken Circle Breakdown). He also took part of the International Jury of São Paulo IFF 2023, chaired by the Serbian director Emir Kusturica, amongst the Berlinale Artistic Director Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Lenny Abrahamson (Frank, Room, Normal People) and Enrica Fico Antonioni.
In June 2022, Welket released his first book 'Corpo Periférico' on the Amazon platform, it's an autobiographical essay on auteur filmmaking based on the eponymous concept of "self-portraying cinema".
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Welket Bungué nasceu em 1988 na Guiné-Bissau. O guineense-português de etnia balanta, reside em Berlim desde 2019. Bungué é um artista transdisciplinar com foco nas artes cénicas e no vídeo performanace. A sua educação intercultural agregando as suas heranças africanas, a as vivências europeias, e as influências adquiridas no Brasil, fazem dele um cidadão-artista em trânsito permanentemente.
Welket é co-fundador da produtora KUSSA, faz locução para entidades internacionais, desenvolve Escrita Dramática, Argumento de Cinema, Performances e Teatro. É licenciado em Teatro no ramo de Atores (ESTC/Lisboa) e pós-graduado em Performance (UniRio/RJ).
Bungué é cooperador-membro da Fundação GDA, é Membro Permanente da Academia Portuguesa de Cinema desde 2015, membro da Deutsche Filmakademie desde 2020, e em 2021 tornou-se membro da Academia Europeia de Cinema. Bungué é artista integrante do Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlim), e desde 2021 que os seus filmes fazem parte do acervo da instituição.
O seu trabalho artístico investiga práticas anti-colonialistas e de afirmação africana-diaspórica, visando a criação de capacidades de auto-empoderamento e cura. A filmografia de Bungué pressupõe um ecossistema de liberdade criativa, um convite a abandonar narrativas endurecidas e a lançar-se em novas possibilidades de pensamento, resiliência, e simultaneidade identitária.
Os seus filmes têm circulado internacionalmente por inúmeros festivais de cinema tais como Berlinale, ABFF (EUA), Africlap (França), Zanzibar IFF, Afrikamera (Berlim), BFI Londres e Sheffield DocFest (Reino Unido), IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Curta Cinema IFF (RJ, Brasil), bem como o Dansfilmfestival de Estocolmo. O repertório cinematográfico de Welket reúne mais de 25 criações, incluindo as curtas-metragens 'Memória' (2022), 'Mudança' (2020), 'Intervenção Jah' (2019), 'Eu Não Sou Pilatus (2019), 'Arriaga' (2019) e 'Bastien' (2016).
Em 2019 foi distinguido com o prémio “Angela Award - On The Move” no Subtitle Festival em Kilkenny, na Irlanda. Em 2020 Welket é o protagonista de 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' (Comp. Intl. Berlinale 2020), realizado por Burhan Qurbani. A sua interpretação valeu-lhe uma indicação ao Urso de Prata, uma nomeação como “Melhor Ator Principal” nos prémios LOLA da Academia Alemã de Cinema (Deutscher Filmpreis), e ainda o prémio “Cavalo de Alumínio” para “Melhor Ator” no Festival Internacional de Cinema de Estocolmo.
Em junho de 2022 Welket lançou o seu primeiro livro 'Corpo Periférico' na plataforma Amazon, trata-se de um ensaio autobiográfico sobre a produção de cinema de autor com base no conceito homónimo de "cinema de autorrepresentação".
(Eng.) In order to articulate a film that could fulfill the purpose of the challenge proposed by Francisco Frazão (Dir. Artístico TBA), in which an artistic approach is called for that puts in dialogue the activities of those considered “essential workers” and artists in general, I came up with the idea of change'.
Since July, I resumed the possibility of traveling and went to Marseille, a place where I realized that I would like to glimpse the possibility of seeing the most prominent voice of the current Portuguese national politics represented, which exactly corresponds to the purposes of the social-civic agenda developed by the citizen and deputy. Joacine Katar Moreira.
In Marseille, in a temperate Mediterranean climate, typical of summer, I witnessed the resumption of cultural activities, in which it was cautiously possible to again see a crowd of people celebrating there near the Cours Julien district. This cluster reflected an idea of cohesion and social cohabitation that I continue to find essential to reflect in our current Portuguese society, and I needed to understand which figure has most represented this feeling. So I came to the conclusion that Joacine could have the potential “essential worker” she needed, and the idea that came to me immediately was to propose to the deputy to decorate two prose-poetry texts written by my father, Paulo T. Bungué, originally published in his book 'Cabaró, Djito Tem!' (1996), joining their two voices.
In times of widespread pandemic, questioning the preservation of democracy, the integrity of public health and our own notions of individuality, we are dragged by a process of change already underway. How to think about a meeting between an artist and a deputy, who decide to question the essence of their crafts? In 'Mudança' the challenge is to make the artist Welket Bungué and the politician Joacine Katar Moreira, making use of their expression and communication skills, which can be questioned physically and orally based on the understanding of what is the essence of the art of rhetoric and the art of representation, respectively.
The film makes use of the projection of original paintings created for the same, conceived by the artist Nú Barreto, and still has the musicality in charge of Mû Mbana, both from Guinea-Bissau.
'Mudança' has as its visual proposal the plasticity of the interpreted text, and of the digital image projected on the performers. The music and textual content appeal to the dreamlike drama of a territory thought from island sensations, brought by references to the people of the Bijagó archipelago, in Guinea-Bissau.
'Mudança' is a dance-film that continues the work 'N'sumande Tchalih Hudi' (2019), an epic-narrative film created by Welket Bungué, with images captured in the Amazon rainforest and in the Natural Park of Itatiaia (Brazil).
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(Pt) Para articular um filme que pudesse cumprir o propósito do desafio proposto pelo Francisco Frazão (Dir. Artístico TBA), no qual se pede uma abordagem artística que coloque em diálogo as atividades dos considerados “trabalhadores essenciais” e dos artistas em geral, cheguei à ideia de 'Mudança'.
Desde Julho que retomei a possibilidade de viajar e fui para Marselha, lugar onde percebi que gostaria de vislumbrar a possibilidade de ver representada a voz mais proeminente da atualidade política nacional portuguesa, que justamente corresponde aos propósitos da agenda social-cívica desenvolvida pela cidadã e deputada Joacine Katar Moreira.
Em Marselha, num mediterrânico clima temperado, típico do Verão, assisti ao reinício das atividades culturais, em que cautelosamente se pôde voltar a ver um aglomerado de pessoas a celebrar ali próximo ao bairro de Cours Julien. Esse aglomerado refletia uma ideia de coesão e co-habitabilidade social que eu continuo a achar essencial refletir na nossa sociedade atual portuguesa, e precisei de perceber qual a figura que mais tem representado esse sentimento. Assim, cheguei à conclusão que Joacine poderia ter o potencial de “trabalhadora essencial” de que precisava, e a ideia que me surgiu imediatamente foi a de propor à deputada decorar dois textos prosa-poesia escritos pelo meu pai, Paulo T. Bungué, originalmente publicados no seu livro 'Cabaró, Djito Tem!' (1996), unindo as suas duas vozes.
Em tempos de pandemia generalizada, questionando a preservação da democracia, a integridade da saúde pública e as nossas próprias noções de individualidade, vemo-nos arrastados por um processo de mudança já em curso. Como pensar um encontro entre um artista e uma deputada, que decidem questionar a essência dos seus ofícios? Em 'Mudança' o desafio é fazer com que o artista Welket Bungué e a política Joacine Katar Moreira, fazendo uso das suas capacidades de expressão e comunicação, que se possam questionar física e oralmente com base no entendimento daquilo que é a essência da arte da retórica e da arte da representação, respetivamente.
O filme faz uso da projeção de pinturas originais criadas para o mesmo, concebidas pelo artista plástico Nú Barreto, e tem ainda a musicalidade a cargo de Mû Mbana, ambos da Guiné-Bissau.
'Mudança' tem como proposta visual a plasticidade do texto interpretado, e da imagem digital projetada sobre os performers. A música e o conteúdo textual apelam ao dramatismo onírico de um território pensado a partir de sensações insulares, trazidas pelas referências ao povo do arquipélago Bijagó, na Guiné-Bissau.
'Mudança' é um filme-dança que dá continuidade à obra 'N'sumande Tchalih Hudi' (2019), um filme épico-narrativo criado por Welket Bungué, com imagens captadas na floresta amazónica e no Parque Natural de Itatiaia (Brasil).