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Karlovy Vary Competitor ‘Banzo’ Brings the Deadly Heartbreak of Colonialism to the Screen
Margarida Cardoso’s 'Banzo,' which plays at Karlovy Vary, is a deeply evocative consideration of the literal heartbreak of colonialism in Africa.
Margarida Cardoso ’s “Banzo,” which plays in the main competition section of Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week, is a deeply evocative consideration of the literal heartbreak of colonialism in Africa. “I already knew the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe,” Cardoso says, “and the ruins of the countless plantations that existed there – and are still inhabited today – create a strange emotional portal to a very violent past. She describes the film’s subject this way: “Perhaps having gone further back in time, trying to reflect on one of the most horrific moments in colonial history, the scramble for Africa, where Europe’s technological and scientific strengths sustained a civilizational arrogance that gave rise to a broad and inhuman massacre of African people and cultures.”
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