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"Natal 71" is the name of a record given on this year to the soldiers of the Portuguese colonies overseas. "Cancioneiro do Niassa" is the name given to an audiotape illegally recorded by the soldiers, during the war years, in Mozambique. It was the time in which Portugal was a great colonial empire - at least that was what I read in my school books - and, in order for that to go on, my father and a major part of his generation fought in that war which lasted thirteen years. Today, we carry these memories in silence. I look back and try to see. In my father's house, I found some pictures, the record and the tape. The tape is a voice of rebellion. The record is a piece of nationalist propaganda. They are memories from a country which was shut from the rest of the world, poor and ignorant, laid to sleep by a stale and primitive propaganda which tried to hide from us all the conflicts, and which kept us from thinking and recognizing the repressive nature of the regime in which we lived. Margarida Cardoso

Portugal / France / Belgium - 2000 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Margarida Cardoso Scénario Margarida Cardoso Image Lisa Hagstrand Son Pedro Figueiredo, José Barahona Montage Pedro Ribeiro, Anne Brotons

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