Understory
by Margarida Cardoso
Portugal, 2019, 81’
A personal essay on a plant and all its cultural and economic ramifications: cocoa. Traveling through São Tomé and Príncipe, England and Brazil, the director walks us from past to present, dismantling the schemes of European colonial oppression.
16 APR · 18:30 · free entrance
Ilídio Pinho Auditorium
Special screening in collaboration with the 2024 Programme of Concerts, Conferences, Exhibitions and Performances "It was not Cabral: reviewing silences and omissions" and in antecipation of the open class of Margarida Cardoso that will take place in April the 18th, at 18:30, in Ilídio Pinho Auditorium.
Understory
by Margarida Cardoso
Portugal, 2019, 81’
A personal essay on a plant and all its cultural and economic ramifications: cocoa. Traveling through São Tomé and Príncipe, England and Brazil, the director walks us from past to present, dismantling the schemes of European colonial oppression.
