23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

SITA – the life and times of Sita Valles

Margarida Cardoso

Portugal

2022, 168'

Sita Valles was born in Angola, in 1951, but studied Medicine in Lisbon, where she became a communist student leader. After 1974, and because she considered that the revolution in Portugal had no future, she left for Angola and joined the MPLA, the liberation movement. Sita died at the age of 26, in 1977, in circumstances which have not been fully clarified. Testimonies of political figures who crossed paths with her tell us about her life.

This screening will be followed by a debate moderated by Marta Lança.

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INFO

PREMIERE TYPE

World

ORIGINAL TITLE

SITA – A Vida e o Tempo de Sita Valles

LANGUAGE

Portuguese (PT) / English

PHOTOGRAPHY

Cláudia Varejão, Miguel Saraiva, Manuel Pinho Braga

SOUND

João Alves

EDITING

Margarida Cardoso, Pedro Filipe Marques

PRODUCER

Patrícia Faria, Marta Lança, Pedro Borges

PRODUCTION

MIDAS Filmes

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