Gretel Marín

Five dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory, and identity, questioning the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in their own lives.

What seemed to be a trip back to my country at a time of irreversible changes, becomes a trip towards myself, between contradictions and questions about an identity.

A being that has only bodily existence, an object used to satisfy needs and desires. On the screen, Lúcia preserves only a distant look that hides screams, fears and explosions. She is always ostracized and silenced by the sexist society that at no time considers her opinion and desires. Lucia is the woman's silent report associated with a role or function without the right to be, to think or to express opinions.

On November 11, 2020, the day on which Angola celebrates the 45th anniversary of its independence, Cine Africa joins the Angolan audiovisual production company Geração 80 to show documentaries of the project “This is our Memory”, stimulating the production of memory about this historic landmark in the country. All were acquired under the initiative of the Tchiweka Documentation Association called “Angola - On the Rails of Independence”.

Afibola and Olorum live in a house in downtown Havana. She is an afrofeminist poet, activist and queer, he is her eight-year-old son. Afibola sees her son's safety diminishing with comments outside the home. She worries that it is something he will always carry with him. In the intimacy of the spaces where they live together, they reflect on the difficulty of raising a black child in a racist and discriminatory society.