{"id":815,"date":"2025-09-10T11:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/?page_id=815"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:48:17","slug":"program-h","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/en\/program-h\/","title":{"rendered":"\u300aH\u300bFilms and Words 3: Mueda, Memory and Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"film-list\">\n<div class=\"capimg\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/2025\/images\/H_Mueda_Still.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Mueda, Memory and Massacre\n  <\/div>\n<div>\n    <span>Mozambique<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Films and Words 3: Mueda, Memory and Massacre<\/h2>\n<h3>1 work, 80 min.<\/h3>\n<p>    A recently digitized historical film by Ruy GUERRA, a standard-bearer in the Cinema Novo movement, in which memories of a colonial-era massacre are transformed into a celebration of revolution.<\/p>\n<p>    On June 16th, 1960, the Portuguese army turned its guns on protesting civilians, and over 600 people were massacred in the town of Mueda. Ruy GUERRA\u2019s film reenacted this event that marked the beginning of Mozambique\u2019s anti-colonial struggle in the place where it happened after this nation had achieved independence. This is the first Japanese screening of this masterpiece of political cinema, considered Mozambique\u2019s first feature-length film and a work that played an important role in the process of decolonization.<\/p>\n<p>    <strong>Mueda, Memory and Massacre<\/strong>\u3000Ruy GUERRA \/ 35mm (digital version) \/ 80min \/ 1979<\/p>\n<p>    \u25ba Curated by Bunga SIAGIAN (curator, researcher)<br \/>\n    \u25ba Mon, Sep 29 at 1:30pm \u2013 Guest talk by Bunga SIAGIAN following the screening\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u25ceAssociated Special Program<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Experimental Cinema in Words: Special Screening and Critical Writing Workshop 2025<\/strong><br \/>\nDetails &#038; Registration (External Peatix site): <a href=\"https:\/\/iff2025-ws.peatix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/iff2025-ws.peatix.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mueda, Memory and Massacre Mozambique Films and Words 3: Mueda, Memory and Massacre 1 work, 80 min. A recently digitized historical film by Ruy GUERRA, a standard-bearer in the Cinema Novo movement, in which memories of a colonial-era massacre are transformed into a celebration of revolution. On June 16th, 1960, the Portuguese army turned its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"program.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/?page_id=813","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}