Mozambique: Sleep Walking Land

Posted 16 January 2008 21:00 GMT

Countries	Mozambique
Topics	Film
Languages	Portuguese

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Forever Pemba [pt] is glad to find out that the film ‘Sleep Walking Land', by Mozambican Teresa Prata based on a Mia Couto's book, will be shown at the Pune International Film Festival, in India, and in London's Bird's Eye Film Festival. “The movie tell us the Muidinga's story, a Mozambican boy who looks for his family in the middle of the civil war”.

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