On Saturday 30 November, the Mozambican film Virgin Margarida screens at the
Goethe Centre in Windhoek in Namibia at 19h00 as part of the AfricAvenir African
Perspectives film series.
Drawing on the experiences of real women in Mozambican “re-education camps’,
director Licinio Azevedo (The Last Prostitute, A Ilha dos Espiritos) and producer
Pedro
Pimenta (Africa Dreaming, A Child from the South) capture the spirit of women
across
nations, histories and cultures.
Virgin Margarida follows on Azevedo’s The Last Prostitute; a documentary about
the
brutal treatment of women in government sex worker prison camps and the
bonds
that subsequently form amongst them.
The film features Margarida (Sumeia Maculuva), a young country girl unable to
provide
identification papers; Rosa (Iva Mugalela), a feisty prostitute; Susana (Rosa
Mario), a
cabaret dancer and single mother; and Maria Joao (Hermelinda Cimela), the
camp’s
commander battling to overcome male domination in a new regime where
woman are
viewed as servants and / or sexual objects.
African Perspectives is supported by the FNB Foundation, the Finnish Embassy in
Namibia, WhatsOnWindhoek, and the Goethe Centre Windhoek.
Tickets are on sale for N$30 each.
Visit www.africavenir.org for more information.
View the trailer at: http://www.screenafrica.com/page/industry-
interviews/1637228-Virgin-Margarida#.UpRN2sSmgnE
