Upheaval

It's essential to generate life, dialogue, understanding, and to celebrate humanity. In times of widespread pandemic, raising questions about the preservation of democracy, the integrity of public health, and our own notions of individuality, we are dragged into a process of change. Mudança is an encounter between the artist Welket Bungué and the Portuguese parliamentary politician Joacine Katar Moreira. Here they question the essence of their crafts, making an unexpected paradigm of imminent revolution resound. The film uses two prose-poetry texts written by the director's father, Paulo T. Bungué, projections of original paintings conceived by the artist Nú Barreto, and a musical landscape composed by Mû Mbana, both artists originally from Guinea-Bissau. Mudança has as its visual proposal the plasticity of the poems 'Mudança' and 'COBDE,' and the digital image projections over the performers’ bodies. The music and the textual content appeal to the dreamlike territory of imagery sensations, brought about by references to the people of the Bijagó archipelago in Guinea-Bissau. (Berlinale)