Screening of the Film “Margot” by Catarina Alves Costa at the National Museum of Ethnology

At the end of the screening, there will be a conversation between Catarina Alves Costa and João Leal.

26 February, 6.00 pm

72′ | DCP | colour | Portugal

Synopsis: Between 1958 and 1961, Margot Dias took part in four ethnographic missions to the far north of Mozambique. She filmed and recorded many hours of unique visual and sound documentation of Makonde culture. That journey changed her life, as if the encounter with the other had the power and strength to lead her back to herself.

It is the woman behind the records of these journeys whom we seek to portray, tracing her youth in 1920s Germany, her meeting and marriage to the Portuguese ethnologist Jorge Dias, and the missions they undertook together to what was then the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. At the end of the screening, there will be a conversation between Catarina Alves Costa and João Leal.

Free admission (subject to auditorium capacity).