Amílcar

In 2013, during a trip to Cape Verde, I discovered the story of Amílcar Cabral. I was fascinated by the determination that led Hamilcar to dedicate his life to a seemingly crazy dream: the union of two countries to fight for their independence. Who was this young African agricultural engineer? How did you get international support for a small territory and challenge Portugal?
I began exploring these questions with a small team, interviewing friends, family members, and comrades. I discovered that Amílcar Cabral remains a controversial figure who sparks opposing opinions in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Portugal, and the USA.

For the past five years, Amílcar has never ceased to challenge me. The documentary became a romantic project, thought through and rethought, to which I have devoted myself with total creative freedom.



In this biopic, I reclaim Cabral—his life and his ideas—as a way of exploring the vulnerability of the human being and the need to remain attentive. We live in turbulent times, in which intolerance is spreading across the world. Today, Cabral’s life reminds us that the rights of social justice acquired by our civilization are not eternal, but must be reconquered with each generation and that there is no greater danger than oblivion.