SLEEPWALKING LAND

MOZAMBIQUE, CIVIL WAR. Muidinga, a boy with big dreamy eyes, finds a diary beside a corpse and begins reading it. It is the story of Farida who lives in an old ship anchored out at sea, and who is searching for her own son. He convinces himself that he is the boy in the diary and decides to search for her. He sets off with Tuahir, a tough old storyteller, who finds it difficult to show his growing affection to Muidinga. He even becomes jealous that the boy might soon find his family

Awards
International Film Festival of Kerala, India (FRIPESCI Award – Best film in competition by the International Cinema Critics Federation)
International Film Festival of Pune, India (Best Director Award)
Famafest, Portugal (Grand Prix de Lusofonia)
African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan, Italy (Signis Award)
Festival Indie Lisboa, Portugal (Audience Award and Special Mention)
Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival, Turkey (Save The Children Award)
Festival Cinema Africano di Verona, Italy (Best Screenplay Award)

Festivals
Festival de Filmes du Monde de Montreal, Canada
International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany
Festival Internacional de Cinema do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fajr International Film Festival, Iran
Birds-Eye View Film Festival, United Kingdom
Natfilm Festival, Denmark
Afrika Camera, Poland
Festival Cines del Sur, Spain
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
Mostra de Cinema Lusófono – Macau, China
ZIFF - Zanzibar International Film Festival, Tanzania
Africa in the Pictures, Netherlands
Kolkata Film Festival, India
Films From the South Festival – Oslo, Norway
Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia
Danish Film Institute, Denmark
Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt

Director
Teresa Prata

Drama
103'
Colour
35mm Available in Betacam
Portugal
2007

Title
Terra Sonâmbula, 2007

Production
Jorge coelho

Cast
Tânia Adelino
Cândido Andrade
Valdemar António
Aron Silva Bila
Marcela Chambale
Eugénio Cumbane
Márcia Cumbane
Hélio Fumo
Laura Soveral