Rent Sleepwalking Land (2007)
3.3 of 5 from 53 ratings
1h 37min
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- Synopsis:
- A story within a story. Young Muidinga is desperate to find the family he lost while his country, was in civil war. He finds a diary that recounts the story of a woman on a ship who is searching for her son. Muidinga, convinced that he is her son, decides to find her with the help of wise guardian Tuahir. Kindzu, travels up the coast, in search of the 'naparamas', a counter-insurgency movement in the North of a country at war. He meets and falls in love with the beautiful Farida, and begins a quest to try and find her son, Gaspar, lost in the chaos of war.
- Actors:
- Nick Lauro Teresa, Aladino Jasse, Ernesto Lemos Macuacua, Filimone Meigos, Tania Adelino, Eronia Malate, Alan Cristina Salazar, Gildo Arao Balate, Jorge Kanic Passe, Afonso Francisco, Alfredo Junior, Candido Andrade
- Directors:
- Teresa Prata
- Producers:
- António da Cunha Telles, Pandora da Cunha Telles
- Aka:
- Terra Sonambula
- Studio:
- HB Films
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- Portugal
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Reviews (1) of Sleepwalking Land
Ashes, Echoes, and Burnt-Out Buses - Sleepwalking Land review by griggs
Sleepwalking Land is a slow, dreamlike road movie set in the wreckage of civil war in Mozambique. It follows a boy and an old man travelling through burnt-out buses and ghost towns, piecing together memories—some personal, some borrowed. The film's primary concern is memory: how it's preserved, distorted, and passed on like folklore. At times, the pace drags, and the symbolism feels a bit heavy-handed, but there's a profound poetry in how it blurs the line between reality and fantasy. It suggests that memory—imaginative, slippery, and stubborn—is sometimes all we have to survive, especially when everything else has already been lost.
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