Marrabentando – The Stories My Guitar Sings
Director:
Karen Boswall
Producer:
Year:
2005
Length:
52 MIN
Land of origin:
Mozambique
Category:
Docu
Language:
Portuguese
Subtitles:
English
Touching documentary in which elderly ‘marrabentistas’ from Mozambique talk about their lives. In a mix of traditional marrabento songs and contemporary rap, their stories finds their way to the younger generation. Karen Boswall, who moved from London to Maputo Mozambique and back, has been making documentaries since 1997, such as Living Battles (1998), Dancing on the Edge (2001) and the music documentary Marrabentando the stories my guitar sings (2004). Boswall plays saxophone and writes (film)music.
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