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Summarized in English below, with a link out to each original piece. Three run in Portuguese-language outlets, one in Arabic.
Covers Submergido's Mozambican premiere at the Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano in Maputo, tracing the film's route through festivals in Rotterdam, Italy, and Switzerland, and its award from the MiWorld Young Film Festival's student jury. Añez talks about wanting to approach the war in Cabo Delgado through absence and silence rather than violence itself.
Read the originalA long-form profile published ahead of Submergido's Rotterdam premiere. Añez discusses starting out as a writer before directing, names Tarkovsky and Bergman as reference points, and describes the instinct-led process that led him to the film's story of a father and son — one that draws closely on his own childhood. He also talks about directing his young lead, Dino Cumbane, and premiering alongside fellow Mozambican director Ique Langa's O Profeta.
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A short radio feature marking Submergido's selection for the Open Doors Official Selection at the 79th Locarno Film Festival. Produced by the Mbenga Artes e Reflexões platform for RDP África.
Listen to the originalTitle translation: "Submergido... a Mozambican film betting on childhood imagination to summon the absent"
Frames Submergido around how a person's absence in wartime lingers as a presence in a family's memory rather than a clean ending. Añez speaks candidly about the practical strain of producing independent film in Mozambique — limited institutional funding, and a production that leaned heavily on personal relationships within the local film community — including a producer who withdrew from the project about a week before shooting began.
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