Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond their immediate surroundings. In the fragments of conversations captured in the Maputo market, a recording studio and on coconut trees, we find daily routines and tedium lead to chit-chat on desire, money and hope. In the interplay between performance and document, poetry emerges from fleeting everyday moments.
Ico Costa
Writer, Director
Zacarias Covela
Domingos Marengula
Édio Peleve
Belton Guilade
King Best
Mimórcia Nhantumbo
Vivaldo Zandamela
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