![]() ![]() ![]() As he reads, the film folds in a parallel story-within-the-story, flashing back to a young man, Kindzu (Helio Fumo), who, having lost his own family to the war, is in search for Gaspar, the son of Farida (Ilda Gonzalez), a woman he has met and with whom he has fallen in love. When he and Tuahir take shelter in a burned and abandoned bus, he discovers a diary with a narrative that seems to be a rejoinder to his own. Muidinga yearns to find his mother and recall his past, but he suffers from amnesia. ![]() The coming-of-age plot follows 11-year-old Muidinga (Nick Laura Teresa who was cast just three days before filming began) as he wanders the countryside with a storytelling elder, Tuahir (Aladino Jasse), who saved him from an untimely death in a refugee camp. Sleepwalking Land (2007) beautifully highlights how the country's war survivors are like somnambulists, deliriously dreaming of alternate realities to cope with their traumas. Teresa Prata's feature film adaptation of Mia Couto's book of the same name ( Terra Sonambula in Portuguese) is a cinematic poem for Mozambique, which was ravaged by postcolonial civil war from 1977 to 1992. ![]()
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