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Conakry

Name: Conakry
Director: Filipa César
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-10-25
Duration: 11 min
Cast: Grada Kilomba, Diana McCarty

2013 0hr : 11m Documentary

"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm film staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and based on the archival images. The film-maker Filipa César, invited the Portuguese writer and artist Grada Kilomba and the American radio activist Diana McCarty to reflect on the images and their history, questioning what these film archive mean in a post-African liberation world.

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Grada Kilomba

Diana McCarty

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Conakry combines Documentary elements in one feature.
The principal cast includes Grada Kilomba, Diana McCarty.

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Best suited to viewers looking for Documentary. Its shorter runtime also makes it easier to fit into one sitting.

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woman director