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The Embassy
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In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the forties and fifties as a basis for thinking about the codes of representation of former Portuguese colonial power and the way memory is produced. Furthermore, these images are shown by a Guinean archivist who tells the story of his country seen through his own eyes.
Release Date: March 26, 2011
Genres: Documentary
Director: Filipa César
Language: Portuguese
Country: Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal
IMDb: tt21382844