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Director's Statement
I was born 34 years ago, in a faraway city called Lourenço Marques. At five, I landed with my family in a cold, grey, totally unknown place. My parents restarted from scratch. I simply went on. At school they called me returnee: intriguing - I’d never lived here before. AMÉRICA is a film about “stranded” people and identity: individual, group, national. Liza - trapped in an alien world for the sake of a hopeless love. In this house of forgers with the beach across the street and the Chinese shack in the back. There’s the wide endless ocean separating us from that unreachable myth - America. On this side, there’s the new America - that of the poor people, the lost opportunities and the stranded dreams. And suddenly that angry, stormy ocean hurdles a fishing boat at the house-roof. The boat is the new reality that struck us: a country which has now become an immigration target and doesn’t know how to handle it. And so the boat lingers on. A patch-up here, a push-over there, the boat stays on the roof until the very end.