Kontinuasom
{{short description|2009 film}}
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| name = Kontinuasom
| image = Kontinuasom cover.jpg
| caption = Poster for the film
| director = Óscar Martínez
| producer = Útopi ASAD Animasur. RTCV (Radio Televisión Cabo Verde)
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| released = {{Film date|2009}}
| runtime = 80 minutes
| country = Cape Verde
Spain
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| screenplay = Francisco Pascual
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| cinematography = David Dominguez
| editing = Noemi García Irene Cardona Raquel Conde
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Kontinuasom is a 2010 documentary film which was released in Cape Verde and Spain. It was directed by Oscar Martinez.{{Cite web|last=Martínez|first=Oscar|date=25 July 2014|title=Kontinuasom|url=https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_104572.php|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 September 2020|website=Haus der Kulturen der Welt|location=Berlin, Germany}} The film describes the musical heritage and culture of Cape Verde.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2013-11-13|title=From Peckham to Cape Verde – a look back at Film Africa 2013|url=https://brixtonblog.com/2013/11/film-africa-2013-a-look-at-a-few-of-the-films-shown/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-25|website=Brixton Blog|language=}}
Synopsis
Beti is a dancer in the Raiz di Polon company in Cape Verde. She receives an offer from Lisbon to join a Cape Verde music show and start a new career there. The offer unchains the deep-set Cape Verde conflict in her: identity built on the Diaspora century after century. Doubts, nostalgia, uprooting, they all soar over her and accompany her decision. The same dilemma that surrounds all Cape Verdeans, the yearning to leave, the yearning to return. Expressed and brought together around music, hallmark of the people of Cape Verde.
Production
Kontinuasom was shot from 2008 to 2010. Scenes were shot in both Cape Verde and Lisbon. It was produced by ASAD, Útopi, Animasur. It was funded by AECID.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=KONTINUASOM|url=https://www.utopi.es/media-transmedia/project/kontinuasom/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Utopi Transmedia|language=es}} The music was generated live, and included native Cape Verdean and Portuguese genres, including batuka and morna.{{Cite web|last=Pedrosa|first=Guillermo|date=|title=A musical trip to Cape Verde|url=https://www.ideal.es/granada/20090620/cultura/viaje-musical-cabo-verde-20090620.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=25 September 2020|website=Granada and Province News}}
Reception
The film won the Fifai Le Port Award, and the International Film Festival of Africa and the Reunion Islands for being the best documentary. The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, António Leão de Aguiar Correia e Silva (a member of the cabinet of José Maria Neves) declared the Kontinuasom a "national cultural value and audiovisual heritage of Cape Verde, for its artistic, cultural and social values and for the participation in the dissemination of Cape Verdean culture in the world".
References
External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091005024859/http://www.kontinuasom.org/ Official website]
Category:Cape Verdean documentary films
Category:Spanish documentary films