Sleepwalking Land

(Teresa Prata, Mozambique, 2007)

Thursday, November. 5, at 8 a.m., Drenan Auditorium, third floor, Parker Hall, and Friday, Nov. 6, at 12 p.m., Putnam Theatre, Redfern Arts Center.

Muidinga is a dreamer. The boy’s greatest desire is to find the family he lost while his country, Mozambique, was in civil war. In a diary he finds beside a body, he reads the story of a woman on a ship who is searching for her son. Muidinga is convinced that he is the lost son. He goes after her with the help of the old and wise Tuahir. The road they travel along is enchanted: It knows their desires and moves them from one place to another, making sure they survive to reach the longed for sea.

Teresa Prata was born in Portugal but spent her childhood in Mozambique and adolescence in Brazil. She studied biology at the University of Coimbra but went to work in an art gallery and eventually started making experimental videos and installations. She returned to school and graduated from the German Film and Television School with a degree in screen writing and directing. Sleepwalking Land is her first feature film.