Film
Afrika Eye 2018: Train of Salt and Sugar + intro
- Director
- Licínio Azevedo
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 93 mins
Rosa, a young and hopeful nurse, and Taiar, an idealistic soldier, brave the treacherous train journey from northern Mozambique to Malawi during the Mozambican Civil War of the 1980s. The train, under military guard, must transport its passengers and goods 200 miles through guerrilla-held territory. It is the most dangerous railway in the world and, as rivalries form between the soldiers and friendships between the passengers, violence looms both on board and from the insurgents outside. This fact-based drama was Mozambique’s first ever entry to the Academy Awards. Afrika Eye‘s screening will be introduced by the High Commissioner for Mozambique.
Also screened as part of the programme is Bristol-based Simon Bright‘s Limpopo Line – a documentary about the journey he made on the first train to reach Maputo since the outbreak of civil war 18 years earlier, including footage of him and his crew being ambushed.
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