| Sleepwalking Land | |
| Director: | Teresa Prata |
| Producer: | Filmes de Fundo, Ebano Multimedia, ICAM, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP), ZDF Arte |
| Starring: | Nick Lauro Teresa, Aldino José, Hélio Fumo, Ilda Gonzalez, Laura Soveral |
| Runtime: | 103' |
| Country: | Germany Mozambique Portugal |
| Screenplay: | Teresa Prata (Adaptación de la novela epónima de Mia Couto) |
| Cinematography: | Dominique Gentil |
| Editing: | Paulo Ebelo, Jacques Witta |
| Music: | Alex Goretzki |
Sleepwalking Land is a 2007 film based on the eponymous novel by Mia Couto. The film took its director Teresa Prata seven years to complete.[1]
In Mozambique, the civil war causes devastation among the population. Amongst this chaos, young Muidinga dreams of finding his family. One day, he finds a diary on a lifeless body in a gunned-down bus;[2] it speaks of a woman searching for her son. Convinced that he's the missing son, Muidinga decides to find her. On his journey he's accompanied by an old man, Tuahir, always ready to tell a tale. Their journey is a battle, and turns them into somnambulists in a country devastated by war.