Here we are, at the 20th Lusophone Cinema Week.
“Twenty years of a collective adventure, not without its questions and moments of doubt, but driven by a constant desire from everyone who has been involved at one time or another to give it the opportunity to go further,” says Pedro da Nobrega, one of the event’s organizers.
A longevity founded on the determination of a team to continue the adventure initiated at the end of the last century: one of providing the local audience with some of the most significant film productions of Lusophony, but not only that.
Knowing how to sustain a cultural and human space based on a shared language, but also on the exchanges it has developed through its history and diversity. An identity that has successfully found its place and wealth within the diverse realities formed by Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sรฃo Tomรฉ and Prรญncipe, and Timor-Leste, transcending far beyond its geographical limits.
A Lusophone Cinema Week also gives a place to music, with local folk groups present on the opening day: a music concert will be given by two of the artists who will have illuminated this week: Nina PAPA for Brazil and Carlos LOPES for Cape Verde.