In 2020, unable to travel to Mozambique, Ico Costa asked Ailucha and Domingos to film their daily lives with a camera he had left in Inhambane the previous year. The camera acquired a special presence in the group, recording the teenage life, the working, the playing, the hanging around, the singing and dancing, the desire.
Ico Costa
Ico Costa was born in Lisbon in 1983. He studied at the Portuguese National Film School, in Lisbon, at the Universidad del Cine, in Buenos Aires and at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, in France. He directed several short films. He has also directed the documentary Uproar, Eclipse (2017), and the fiction feature film Alva (2019). He is now working on his second feature film, to be shot in Mozambique. His work was shown at several film festivals (Critics’ Week of Cannes, Rotterdam, Rome, Cinéma du Réel, Visións du Réel, New Directors/New Films, Oberhausen, Jihlava, Vila do Conde, IndieLisboa, DocLisboa). In 2019 he founded the production company Oublaum Filmes, which has recently produced Striking Land and Waters Of Pastaza, both premiered at the Berlinale 2022.