🗓 Wednesday 2 December | Doors 18:30 | Screening 19:00
📍 LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES
⏱ Running time: approx. 2 hr 5 min | 16+ | English subtitles
Colonialism didn’t end with independence. It lives on in whose names count, whose bodies are protected and whose lives are treated as disposable.
For more than three centuries, Angola and Brazil were bound together by the slave trade. Luanda was one of the largest slave ports in the history of the Atlantic, and Brazil received more enslaved Africans than any other country in the world. Many of them came from what is now Angola. Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, in 1888, but only on paper. Freed people received no land, no compensation and no rights. Today, Afro-Brazilians comprise the majority of the population, yet we remain the primary targets of poverty, exclusion, and state violence.
In Angola, Portuguese rule taught people that to be considered “civilised” meant speaking Portuguese, living like a European and carrying a European name. Independence came in 1975, after a long war of liberation. But the hierarchy of names, languages and skin outlived the empire that built it.
Tonight we pair a short from post-independence Angola with a Brazilian feature. On both sides of the Atlantic, Black protagonists refuse to give up who they are: a teenager who won’t trade his African name for a “respectable” one, and a man pulled into a fight he never asked for. Together they ask what it takes to protect yourself, your people and your history in societies built to erase them.
PROGRAMME (EN):
Posto de Identificação (Identification Post)
Dir. Danilson Nzala | Angola | 2026 | Experimental | 15 min
In Luanda after independence, a Western name is still a passport to respect, and an African one is a mark against you. A teenager is shut out because of the name his family gave him. Through the stories of his elders, he finds out what it means and refuses to give it up.
Proteção (Protection)
Dir. Alberto Sena | Brazil | 2026 | Fiction | 108 min
After his parents’ death, biomedical scientist Tarik returns to Brazil. When he risks his career to save an old friend’s life, he is pulled into a war he never knew existed and was never prepared to fight.
PROGRAMME (BR):
Posto de Identificação (AN)
Experimental, 15′, 12 anos, 2026, Angola. Direção: Danilson Nzala.
Legenda em Português.
Luanda do período pós-independência, um adolescente que cresce num contexto em que a imposição de nomes ocidentais ainda é vista como símbolo de ascensão social e cultural, confronta-se com situações de exclusão e discriminação. Através de pesquisas, perguntas e histórias contadas pelos mais velhos, inicia uma jornada de autodescoberta que o leva a compreender o profundo significado do seu nome africano. Ao defender a sua herança identitária, Nzala desafia normas e preconceitos de uma sociedade em transformação, reafirmando a importância da memória colectiva na construção do futuro.
Proteção (RJ)
Ficção, 108′, 16 anos, 2026, Bahia. Direção: Alberto Sena.
Legenda em Português.
Após a morte de seus pais, o biomédico Tarik (Rei Black) retorna ao Brasil. Ao tentar salvar a vida de um velho amigo ele acaba colocando em risco a sua carreira e se vê em uma guerra que nunca imaginou existir e para a qual não está preparado.
