Inhambane. Mozambique. King-Best. Samsung Galaxy. Versace. Babes. White rooster. There are no toothpicks in Norway. Coconut trees. Baobab fruits. Superfruits. Vitamine C. Passiflorine. Alpha-linolenic acid. SMS in Chinese. Megabytes. Hotel Cardoso. Coffee is a white man’s addiction. Ngadzango. My woman. Nafta.
FESTIVALS:
[2017] IFFR | International Film Festival Rotterdam [The Netherlands]
[2017] New Directors/New Films [USA]
[2017] Cinéma du Réel (Best Short Film) [France]
[2017] Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [Spain]
[2017] MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Gathering [Hungary]
[2017] African Film Festival – FCAT [Spain]
[2017] IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival [Portugal]
[2017] International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Jury Special Mention) [Germany]
[2017] Winnipeg Underground Film Festival [Canada]
[2017] VIS Vienna Shorts [Austria]
[2017] Hamburg International Short Film Festival [Germany]
[2017] Olhar de Cinema [Brazil]
[2017] NexT International Film Festival (Cristian Nemescu Award for Best Direction) [Romania]
[2017] ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival [Indonesia]
[2017] DokuFest [Kosovo]
[2017] Festival Silhouette [Franca]
[2017] Into The Great Wide Open (ITGWO) [The Netherlands]
[2017] Split Film Festival - International Festival of New Film [Croatia]
[2017] Riga International Film Festival - Short Riga [Lithuania]
[2017] KUGOMA - Fórum de Cinema de Moçambique [Mozambique]
[2017] Curta Kinoforum - Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de São Paulo [Brazil]
[2017] Balinale, International Film Festival in Bali [Indonesia]
[2017] DTLA Film Festival [USA]
[2017] FestcurtasBH - Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte [Brazil]
[2017] Curtocircuíto - International Film Festival (Young Jury Award) [Spain]
[2017] Cine Eco Seia - Festival Internacional de Cinema Ambiental [Portugal]
[2017] L'Âge d'Or Festival (Young Jury's Honorable Mention) [Belgium]
[2017] Curta'Arruda [Portugal]
[2017] Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux - FIFIB [France]
[2017] Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife [Brazil]
[2017] Aesthetica Short Film Festival [UK]
[2017] Pravo Ljudski Film Festival [Bosnia & Herzegovina]
[2017] Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema [Brazil]
[2017] ZINEBI - Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film [Spain]
[2017] Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal [Canada]
[2017] FIDOCS - International Documentary Festival of Santiago [Chile]
[2017] L'Alternativa Barcelona [Spain]
[2017] Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival [Germany]
[2017] Fim do Caminho [Mozambique]
[2017] PLATEAU - Festival Internacional de Cinema [Cape Verde]
[2017] Caminhos do Cinema Português [Portugal]
[2017] Short Film Festival Zubroffka (Best Cinematography Award) [Poland]
[2017] Verín International Short Film Festival [Spain]
[2018] London Short Film Festival [United Kingdom]
[2018] Stuttgarter Filmwinter — Festival for Expanded Media [Germany]
[2018] World Film Festival Tartu [Estónia]
[2018] Docudays UA International Human Rights Film Festival [Ucrânia]
[2018] International Film Festival of Uruguay [Uruguai]
[2018] AfryKamera [Poland]
[2018] Hotspot Portugal [Belgium]
[2018] Ben Rivers - Heading for Utopia [The Netherlands]
[2018] Ethnocineca - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna [Austria]
[2018] El Festival Internacional de Cine Documental “Encuentros del Otro Cine” – EDOC [Ecuador]
[2018] White Card in Tabakalera- International Centre for Contemporary Culture of San Sebastián [Spain]
[2018] Há Filmes na Baixa [Portugal]
[2018] Valletta Film Festival [Malta]
[2018] The Norwegian Short Film Festival [Norway]
[2018] Festival de Contis [France]
[2018] European Film Festival [Serbia]
[2018] Encuentros Cinematograficos Cámara Lúcida [Ecuador]
[2018] Afrika Film Festival [Germany]
[2018] Pancevo Film Festival [Serbia]
[2018] ZINEBI White Card in in the Filmoteca Española [Spain]
[2018] Corto e Fieno [Italy]
[2018] UNDERDOX - Internationales Filmfestival für Dokument und Experiment München [Germany]
[2019] Frames - Portuguese Film Festival [Sweden]
[2019] Mostra de Cinema Português em Macau [Macao]
[2019] Dili International Film Festival [East-Timor]
[2020] Imagineindia [Spain]
[2020] Estados da Juventude - Cineclube Zoom [Portugal]
[2021] Mostra De Portugal para o Mundo - Rio de Janeiro [Brazil]
[2021] Semana de Cine Portugués [Argentina]
[2021] Festival de Marseille [France]
[2021] Mostra de Cinema Português - Vila Franca de Xira [Portugal]
[2021] Mostra De Portugal para o Mundo - Brasília [Brazil]
[2021] Mostra De Portugal para o Mundo - São Paulo [Brazil]
[2022] Shortcutz Vila Real [Portugal]
[2023] Novocine [Portugal]
Fiction
2017, Portugal, Mozambique, 22'
Script: Ico Costa
Cinematography: Hugo Azevedo
Camera Assistant: Luís Duzenta
Color Correction: Marco Amaral
Sound: Roland Pickl, Tiago Matos
Music: Puto Zaca
Editing: Ico Costa, Eduardo Williams
Production Manager and Assistant Director: Vasco Costa, Celeste Alves
Production: Terratreme Filmes, Ico Costa
Post-Production Coordinator: Marta Lemos
Executive Producers: João Matos, Leonor Noivo, Ico Costa
Cast: Zacarias Covela, Domingos Marengula, Édio Peleve, Belton Guilade, King Best, Mimórcia Nhantumbo, Vivaldo Zandamela, Hélder Tinga, Big John, Carlos Hernandez