The Film

A film by IACOPO PATIERNO

A group of five Italians and a Mozambican go round the forests of Mozambique in search of five amateur actors. The objective is to take them to Italy, write a comedy on health information together, and finally organise a tour around the villages of North Mozambique.
Will they manage in spite of their cultural differences?
This is the story of Wiwanana, or how dialogue is the most powerful weapon in the fight for change.

Web Series

EPISODE 1

Three months before…

And what if we found a group of actors in north Mozambique? We could work with them and create a theatre performance with health information that they could act out in their villages? Theatre is good for you!

Life Stories

Tiziana Freti, counsellor for the project “Il teatro fa bene” (“Theatre so good”), pieced together the life stories of seven Mozambican actors taking part in the show that will be performed in Mozambique. Reading these stories is thought-provoking. They give us a glimpse into the life of a country about which so little is known, both in terms of the history and customs. Adelino, Ana Bela and the others tell us how their passion for theatre started and about their childhood. Enjoy reading about them!

Adelino Kedo

My life started with an escape. My mother’s escape.

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Safina

My name is the name of a boat. A big boat moored in the Port of Palma.

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Adelino Cuba

It is not easy to tell my story, perhaps because nobody ever asked me to tell it.

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Arlete

If you ask me to talk about my childhood I smile because the first person I think of is my grandmother…

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Agostinho

I was born in Tanzania where mum and dad emigrated to work on a large machamba, a sisal plantation.

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Ana Bela

Mesa, the village where I was born, was a very simple place, just a handful of houses far away from everything.

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Felix

I was born in Maputo and raised in the “Barrio” district of the airport. The first 15 years of my world began and ended there.

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Video Credits

Teaser
Regia e montaggio: Iacopo Patierno
Direttore della fotografia: Paolo Negro
Fonico di presa diretta: Daniele Sosio
Riprese: Paolo Negro, Iacopo Patierno
Assistente alla regia: Filippo Ceredi
Mixaggio del suono: Daniele Cutrufo
Color grading: Lapo Bernini
Grafica: Diana Militano

Sigla
Grafica: Jacopo Fo
Musica: Enrico Greppi, Ed. Musicali Mojto
Animazione: Fabio Folla

Theater so good

“Theatre is the desperate efforts made by man in an attempt to give some meaning to life,” said Eduardo De Filippo. And it is with the help of theater, with its extraordinary emotional power, that a unique collaborative project between Italy and Mozambique comes to life and develops: the stage is transformed into a tool for knowledge and hope … Discover the project

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Video Credits

Teaser
Regia e montaggio: Iacopo Patierno
Direttore della fotografia: Paolo Negro
Fonico di presa diretta: Daniele Sosio
Riprese: Paolo Negro, Iacopo Patierno
Assistente alla regia: Filippo Ceredi
Mixaggio del suono: Daniele Cutrufo
Color grading: Lapo Bernini
Grafica: Diana Militano

Sigla
Grafica: Jacopo Fo
Musica: Enrico Greppi, Ed. Musicali Mojto
Animazione: Fabio Folla

Theater so good

“Theatre is the desperate efforts made by man in an attempt to give some meaning to life,” said Eduardo De Filippo. And it is with the help of theater, with its extraordinary emotional power, that a unique collaborative project between Italy and Mozambique comes to life and develops: the stage is transformed into a tool for knowledge and hope … Discover the project

MOZAMBIQUE!

THE TERRITORY AND THE PEOPLE

A land full of charm that extends along more than 2,400 kilometers on the southeastern coast of Africa. A changing society that preserves ancient and suggestive traditions. Let us discover the host country of the project “Theater so good” and know its inhabitants.

EXTRA MATERIAL

The Macua

A Macua proverb says: “Nòkhuma or Namuli, nnotthikela weiwo –From Namuli we come, to Namuli we return”. Let us know this ethnic group: it is presented by anthropologist Timi Gaspari.

The Mozambican Theatre

A journey in episodes on a column by a recognized author to discover the Mozambican theater through the words of Vitor Raposo, actor and writer, director of the Tambo Tambulani Tambo Center in Pemba.

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