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Conakry (2013)

★½ — Conakry (2013)

Conakry is a short experimental film by Portuguese filmmaker Filipa César, who has spent much of her career working at the intersection of cinema, colonialism, and archival memory, particularly in relation to Guinea-Bissau's liberation struggle. Shot on 16mm in a single take at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the film is built around archival images of Amílcar Cabral, the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean independence leader assassinated in 1973, just months before his country gained independence from Portugal. César invited writer and artist Grada Kilomba and radio activist Diana McCarty to respond to those images in real time, framing the whole thing as a kind of living commentary on what liberation-era film archives actually mean now. The film sits within a broader wave of post-colonial essay cinema that found a natural home in European gallery and festival circuits during the 2000s and 2010s.

A-Z World Movie Tour Guinea-Bissau Being 100% honest, in terms of documentaries it's 12 minutes long and it's a woman reading from sheets of paper while slideshows of their former anti-colonialism leader are shown in the background. It's really basic and the sound quality is bad too. Sometimes the mic messes up or you can hear kids crying in the background. It also ends completely abruptly. I'm sure the subject matter is really good it's just delivered in a really non-engaging way

Rating: ★½ | Year: 2013 | Watched: 2025-06-26

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