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LIVING IN MAPUTO SPOTLIGHT MAPUTO | 21 NOVEMBER 2012
“De Corpo e Alma” - Film Launches Social Disability Awareness
By Marina Lopes
With its car-streaked highways,
jagged sidewalks and erratic
chapas, Maputo is a far cry from
a pedestrian friendly city.
For disabled citizens, constantly at odds
with the mobile culture of the city, every
commute becomes a silent battle. This
week, various organizations have partnered
to pry open difficult discussions on
the roles, challenges and stigmas of living
with a disability in Mozambique. Pioneering
the discussion is De Corpo e Alma, a
documentary by Mattieu Bron that follows
the struggle of three disabled young
adults in Maputo.
Bron launched the film in 2007, when he
was awed at a performance by a disabled
dancing troop. “There is a transnational
dimension to the film and its themes, despite
being filmed in Maputo,” he said. “I
want to use this film as a base for debate,
to thrust the issue into the public sphere.”
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Chissano Museum and Sagrada Família church - lunch included - 11h30
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At the Fort - tours and story of the baixa
Saturday 24
Mrs Sorgentini meet at Hotel Cardoso - 10h30
Foto Maputo - to see Benoit Marquet´s lovely photos in Duqueza guesthouse and
then walk down Patrice Lumumba - taking photos to go see new exhibition at
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Sunday 25
Maputo Top Ten meet at Bula Bula café, Hotel Rovuma - 9h30
Tunduro - before + Gerald Potts + Vila Joia - optional lunch at 13h at Tunduru
gardens restaurant - 14h30
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Bron’s governmental partners in the film,
the Ministry of Women and Social Action
and the Forum for the Association of Mozambicans
with Disabilities, FAMOD, agree
that the role of disabled citizens needs to
be further explored. On Wednesday they
launched a daylong debate at the Eduardo
Mondlane Medical School to discuss the
challenge of greater inclusion of the disabled
in Mozambique.
“There is a gap in the field of disability.
We don’t have laws that oblige people to
accommodate the disabled, but we are
working on those now,” said Ricardo Moras,
President of FAMOD.
The three characters profiled in the documentary
said that the film helped them to
better understand their own experiences.
“I see that the things I said in the movie
are important, that other people must listen,
said Victoria Massingue, a main character.
De Corpo e Alma was a joint effort by
Meetings Productions, Light for the World,
the EU, Save the Children, Power International,
UNFPA, the Spanish Embassy, Dolours
Sans Frontiers and Centro de Direitos
Humanos, FAMOD and the Ministry for
Women and Social Action.
It will be screened at Teatro Avenida on
Wednesday at 18h30, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday at 19h00, and at the Municipal Auditorium
in Matola on Thursday at 18h00
Note from the Editor:
The disability awareness campaign will
continue into December with circus performances
including disabled performers
in a project supported by the French and
German embassies entitled 1º Circo de Diversidade
de Moçambique.
www.bodyandsoulmozambique.com
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