Short Fiction by Welket Bungué
Kussa & Arranca Productions

“Prima and Lebsi are two young women, of African descent, daughters of immigrants, meet at a house party on Prima's birthday. Lebsi dates Rave, a young street dancer who makes a living by dancing in the streets of Lisbon center, and they have a daughter in common. Prima is an orphan of both her father and mother, and learned how to get along and survive very early. She is considered by everyone in the neighbourhood as the best producer of hip-hop and trap beats, but she found selling weed as her alternative way to generating money and paying bills. There is an artistic intention to bring feminine vibration to this saga as an essential dramatic additive. This fiery movie-sensation seeks to celebrate interethnic and same-sex relationships, youthful hedonism, and behavioural disruption regarding notions of gender. Prima and Lebsi film plays with several topics involving relationships, pointing to the social empowerment of emancipated women, in the context of Lisbon's periphery. Prima and Lebsi encloses a triptych called Dreams of Color, composed by Bastien (2016) and Arriaga (2019) short films.”
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Excerpt from Miguel Morazzo's testimony for the BANTUMEN interview:
"For Miguel, the art director of the film, "the simple things are the most difficult to keep remembering: being free to love and to follow our dreams. We are all deserving of it. A greater force has painted nature with an endless variety of pigments, shapes, textures. Can't we perceive ourselves in the same way? Why distort something so beautiful? With the other departments, I tried to ensure the representation of this richness, so that the spectator can live an experience of diversity and, above all, joy. There is a painting by Paul Gauguin that I never forget to mention for it keeps me grounded and back to basics: "Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?". After each one of us opens up to the inner journey of self-knowledge, I believe we will reach a better place. Prima And Lebsi is here for that, the right to experiment. To be. It's an invitation to wake up." - Miguel Morazzo, 2021

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