Sónia Vaz Borges
Is an interdisciplinary militant historian and political-social organizer.
She holds a PhD in the history of education from Humboldt University in Berlin.
She is the author of Militant Education, Liberation Struggle; Consciousness: The PAIGC Education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978 (Peter Lang, 2019).
Currently, she is a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin.
As part of her academic work, Vaz Borges is developing a book project on the concept of the "wandering archive" and the process of memory and imaginaries.
Filipa César
Produces films, writes, and organizes gatherings.
She is interested in the fictional aspects of documentary, the porous boundaries between cinema and its reception, and the politics and poetics inherent in the collective ritual of the moving image.
Since 2011, she has been researching the militant cinema, culture, and science of the African Liberation Movements in Guinea-Bissau as a laboratory for critiquing contemporary colonial epistemologies. She initiated the collective projects Luta ca caba inda and Mediateca Onshore.
César has presented her work internationally at film festivals, biennials, and contemporary art spaces.