Under the Baobab Tree
Fifty years after her parents traveled through Mozambique to see the socialist revolution with their own eyes, Valentina crosses the Atlantic searching for a baobab tree that keeps a secret to find a tangle of memories, colonial ghosts, and dissident bodies that insist on keeping the future alive.
Director: Valentina Homem
Script: Valentina Homem
Production companies: Bubbles Project and Sempre Viva
Production stage: In pre-production
Year: 2027
Labs and International Coproduction Markets:
• DocSP 2020 (winner of the MiradasDoc Prize)
• Lab AfroLatam, MiradasDoc 2021
• Durban FilMart 2021
• LabMedeas 2021
• Pitching Documental, DocMontevideo 2021, with Marta Andreu
• Brasil Cinemundi 2021, Mostra Horizonte.
Partners:
– Cinemateca do MAM

