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Searching Nafta(2017)
Status: Released
Date: 2017-01-25
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4 Votes
Time: 0h 22m
Overview:
Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond their immediate surroundings. In the fragments of conversations captured in the Maputo market, a recording studio and on coconut trees, we find daily routines and tedium lead to chit-chat on desire, money and hope. In the interplay between performance and document, poetry emerges from fleeting everyday moments.
Languages: Afrikaans, Portuguese.
Countries:
Mozambique,
Portugal
ProductionCompanies:
Portuguese film agency
Movie: Searching Nafta
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Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond their immediate surroundings. In the fragments of conversations captured in the Maputo market, a recording studio and on coconut trees, we find daily routines and tedium lead to chit-chat on desire, money and hope. In the interplay between performance and document, poetry emerges from fleeting everyday moments.
Release Date
2017-01-25
Average
7.2
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