RED AFRICA

Date: February, 20th and 21st, 2017 Venue: Cinema São Jorge

EGEAC – Galerias Municipais/AFRICA.CONT presents RED AFRICA and the programme The legacy of cultural relationships between Africa, the Soviet Union and related countries during the Cold War at Cinema São Jorge, Lisbon, on February 20th and 21st.

Planned as a complement and counterpoint to the exhibition Things Fall Apart presented at Galeria Avenida da Índia until March 12th, the present film screenings and the debates that accompany them at Cinema São Jorge, intend to open up, contextualise and, most importantly, foster a local debate on the themes of the exhibition and the ensuing publication.

Including perspectives that go beyond, but remain linked to, the struggles for independence of the African territories under Portuguese colonial rule as well as to the intimate relation between decolonisation and democratisation in Portugal after the Carnation Revolution, this initiative intends to offer the possibility to revisit or discover a set of films that deal in a more or less explicit way with the topics of the exhibition.

Organization in the scope of the project COMPARING MODERNITY/IES AND (POST)MODERNISMS of the research group CITCOM.