ABSTRACT
The year 2015 was a year of celebration for the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries. In that year, most Lusophone African nation-states – Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe – celebrated their 40th anniversary of independence after long anticolonial wars. Guinea-Bissau had already become an independent country in 1974. Guinea-Bissau, which created its Film Institute in 1978, is an exceptional case as it was the only country that had trained technicians. In Guinea-Bissau, the National Film Institute produced two fiction films exclusively with national funding: N'turudu by Um-ban U’kset and Mortu Nega by Flora Gomes. In the case of Guinea-Bissau, co-productions represent a very high percentage of audiovisual productions. Guinea undoubtedly has a conciliatory and a didactic purpose by offering to both Guineans and Portuguese an understanding of the reasons, the development and the outcome of the war without victimizing or demonizing.
