Country:Mozambique

Director:20 min.

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

On the night-time streets of Beira Port in Mozambique, commercial sex workers hold their own informal clinics to protect themselves against HIV. A rich and thought-provoking film by a pioneering Mozambican director.
Mozambican director Gabriel Mondlane was trained as a sound engineer and has worked in the Mozambican film industry as sound engineer, writer, director and camera person. He has been active in the Mozambican film industry since 1978 and has written and directed more than ten documentaries. He is the chair of AMOCINE, the Mozambican Association of Filmmakers.

Country:Mozambique

Director:Joao Luis Sol de Carvalho

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

Sophia wants to be a doctor and is studying for her entrance exam. Her teachers however lack any scrupels. One of them has died of aids and a biological teacher fancies Sophia. Salvador, Sophia’s would be football star boyfriend and a slick agent also demands their ‘rights’. The filmmaker has dedicated his film to all the strong young women of Mozambique whose motto is: sending a girl to school is like sprinkling somebody’s elses garden.