The Ship and the Sea
by Lara Sousa and Everlane Moraes
Documentary, development stage
A film essay portraying crossed journeys, woven by journals between “two Africas”. Everlane moves to Mozambique in search of the cultural roots of Afro-descendants in Brazil. Lara travels to Brazil in search of Everlane’s Afro-descendant culture, its scoured traces over the course of centuries of colonization and restless decades of independence. They meet in Lisbon, the former colonial metropolis, where they share their own experiences, questioning the hegemonic version of the historical canon.
What does it mean to be African or Afro-descendant? Which are the possible points of connection and disconnectedness?
Lara and Everlane (from Mozambique and Brazil) undertake an existential journey to each other’s countries to delve into the issue of black identity either in or out of Africa. Their travel journals are a cross-cultural journey across countries, histories, cultures and identities.
Lara Sousa (Mozambique, 1991), Mozambican/Portuguese, is a documentarist and anthropologist with a degree from the International School of Cinema and TV-EICTV, Cuba. Her films have an aesthetic of essay and intimacy. It mixes her political vision with a poetic language, uniting the imaginary of Mozambique with other realities. Her short films were selected for festivals such as Kinoforum (Brazil), Tlachana Fest (Mexico), Tübingen Cine Latino (Germany), Mirrors of Africa (Brazil), Muestra Joven ICAIC (Cuba).
Everlane Moraes is born in Brazil, 1987. She is a documentarist and plastic artist, with a degree from the International School of Cinema and TV-EICTV, Cuba. Her films have a hybrid aesthetic between documentary and videoart, relating to various
themes of the black diaspora. Her last film “Pattaki” premiered in Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Synopsis
A film essay portraying crossed journeys, woven by journals between “two Africas”. Everlane moves to Mozambique in search of the cultural roots of Afro-descendants in Brazil. Lara travels to Brazil in search of Everlane’s Afro-descendant culture, its scoured traces over the course of centuries of colonization and restless decades of independence. They meet in Lisbon, the former colonial metropolis, where they share their own experiences, questioning the hegemonic version of the historical canon.
What does it mean to be African or Afro-descendant? Which are the possible points of connection and disconnectedness?
Lara and Everlane (from Mozambique and Brazil) undertake an existential journey to each other’s countries to delve into the issue of black identity either in or out of Africa. Their travel journals are a cross-cultural journey across countries, histories, cultures and identities.
Lara Sousa
Lara Sousa (Mozambique, 1991), Mozambican/Portuguese, is a documentarist and anthropologist with a degree from the International School of Cinema and TV-EICTV, Cuba. Her films have an aesthetic of essay and intimacy. It mixes her political vision with a poetic language, uniting the imaginary of Mozambique with other realities. Her short films were selected for festivals such as Kinoforum (Brazil), Tlachana Fest (Mexico), Tübingen Cine Latino (Germany), Mirrors of Africa (Brazil), Muestra Joven ICAIC (Cuba).
Everlane Moraes
Everlane Moraes is born in Brazil, 1987. She is a documentarist and plastic artist, with a degree from the International School of Cinema and TV-EICTV, Cuba. Her films have a hybrid aesthetic between documentary and videoart, relating to various
themes of the black diaspora. Her last film “Pattaki” premiered in Rotterdam International Film Festival.