Miguel Moreira, also known as Tibars, also known as Djon África, learns that genetics can be cruel when his physiognomy - as well as some of his strong personality traits - denounce him, straightaway, as his father’s son; someone he has never known.
This intriguing discovery leads him to try to find out who this man is. All he knows about him is what his grandmother, with whom he has always lived, has told him. A raving curiosity makes him decide to go look for him. Following the journey of John Tibars to meet his father we will also encounter the territory of the dream that haunts memories, desires or mythologies of a good part of those who maintain their cultural roots and the genesis of their identity in the African continent. Tibars lives two identities in conflict and at the same time in harmony. What’s living in a ghetto in Portugal and being an African without being it? This ambivalence finds a projection of a lifetime in this adventure. Africa appears here with a whole load of imagination, in the projection not only of the place, but also of its essence, of its belonging.
Featuring: Miguel Moreira
Directed by: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra
Written by: Pedro Pinho, João Miller Guerra
Cinematography: Vasco Viana
Sound: Ruben Santiago
Editing: Eduardo Serrano, Ricardo Pretti, Luísa Homem
Color Correction: Jennifer Mendes
Sound Editing: Elsa Ferreira
Sound Mixer: Branko Neskov
Producers: Pedro Pinho
Co-Producer: Rachel Ellis, Samira Pereira, Filipa Reis
Produced by: Terratreme Filmes
Co-Produced by: Desvia, OII, Uma Pedra no Sapato
International Sales: Still Moving
Distribution (Portugal): Terratreme Filmes
Funded by: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, ANCINE, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Festivals and Awards
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Hivos Tiger Competition (NL 01.2018)
New Directors/New Films
(US 03.2018)
BAFICI – Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente
Entities and Characters (AR 04.2018)
Olhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Curitiba
Filme de Abertura (BR 06.2018)
Filmfest München
International Independents (DE 06.2018 )
Durban International Film Festival
Documentary Competition (ZA 07.2018)
Melbourne International Film Festival
International Competition (AU 08.2018)
Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay
Competencia de largometrajes internacionales (UY 03.2018)
Premio FIPRESCI, Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique
Mención Especial del Jurado de la Competencia de largometrajes internacionales
San Francisco International Film Festival
New Directors Narrative Feature Competition (US 04.2018)
Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam
(NL 04.2018)
Frames of Representation, New Visions for Documentary Film no Institute of Comtemporary Arts
Islanders (UK 04.2018)
Oslo Pix
Discovery Pix Perler (NO 06.2018)
International Film Festival Kino Otok - Isola Cinema
Art Kino Odeon (SI 06.2018)
Transatlantyk Festival
New Cinema (PL 07.2018)
Maine International Film Festival
Feature Competition (USA 08.2018)
Roffa Mon Amour Film Festival
New Directors (NL 07/2018)
Cinemateca Paixão
(CN 2018)
New Zealand International Film Festival
World (NZ 08.2018)
Jerusalem Film Festival Panorama
(IL 07.2018)
Anonimul International Independent Film Festival
Feature Competition (RO 08.2018)
Kugoma – Fórum de Cinema de Curta Metragem
Filme de Abertura (MZ 08.2018)
AFI Latin American Film Festival
(US 09.2018)
Afrika Film Festival Cologne
New Films (DE 09.2018)
Calgary International Film Festival
(CA 09.2018)
CPH PIX
New World Views (DK 09.2018)
Vancouver International Film Festival
Panorama: Contemporary World Cinema (CA 09.2018)
Seminci, Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
(ES 10.2018)
Africa in Motion Film Festival
(GB 10.2018)
Augen Blicke Afrika
(DE 04.2018)
Cineuropa
(ES 2018)
Filmar en América Latina
(CH 11.2018)
Kino Xenix Filmclub
(CH 2018)
this human world, International Human Rights Film Festival
(AT 11.2018)
Plateau – Festival Internacional de Cinema
Filme de Abertura (CV 11.2018)
CINE ATLÂNTICO, Mostra de Cinema Português do Século XXI
(PT 11.2018)
Göteborg Film Festival
Five Continents (SE 01.2019)
Cineclube & Filmoteca de Montemor-o-Novo
(PT 2019)
Portland International Film Festival
(US 03.2019)
AFFNZ – African Film Festival New Zealand
(NZ 05.2019)
Festival de Cine Africano, FCAT
(ES 04.2019)
Cinemateket Bergen
New Portuguese Films (NO 05.2019)
Prémios Sophia 2019, Academia Portuguesa de Cinema
(PT 2019)
Best Original Music
Mostra de Cinema Documental, MAIO DOC
(CV 2019)
Gimli Film Festival
(CA 07.2019)
Cinematik International Film Festival
(SK 09.2019)
Mostra de Cinema Português
(PT 09.2019)
Amigos de Cabo Verde
(SE 2019)
Fórum Cultural José Manuel Figueiredo
(PT 11.2019)
CCCV - Centro Cultural Cabo Verde
De DENTRO e FORA (CV 02.2022)
Portuguese Film Festival in Greece
Portugal Now! (GR 06.2022)
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