MARTA PESSOA

ROSINHA AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS

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Original title
ROSINHA E OUTROS BICHOS DO MATO
year
2023
country
PORTUGAL
language
Portuguese
duration
1 hour 41 minutes
18+
cast

In 1934, the Portuguese New State displayed, at the Portuguese Colonial Exhibition, the ultimate symbol of its virility in Rosinha, a native of what was then Portuguese Guinea. The film questions the idea of Portugal’s so-called «gentle racism», by looking back at more than a century of colonial discourse.