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Lara Sousa
b. 1991

Lara Sousa an anthropologist, filmmaker, story teller, visual artist from Mozambique. Lara’s work engages with narratives coming out of a country still coming to terms with its past and present identity. Issues to do with revolution, trauma, guilt, death, aguish and darkness resonate throughout the stories Lara tells.

Her artistic work is interested in themes such as collective memory/lived memory, cultural heritage, colonisation and decolonization processes and the short films she directed and produced- as founder of Kulunga Filmes, a production company whose main objective is to produce films (documentary and fiction) by emerging filmmakers from Portuguese-speaking African countries and countries in the southern region of Africa- won several awards and were shown at various festivals such as FESPACO, Biennale DAKAR 2022, MAM Rio to name a few. 








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