A short film that bridges ancestral myth and modern migration, reflecting on what it means to find home

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SUPPORTED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE CAPE VERDE

Who We Are

  • We tell stories shaped by real experiences of migration, identity, and belonging. Our process starts with listening — to people, history, and the places we work in. We combine realism with folklore to express emotional truths that words alone can’t. Every choice is intentional, from performance to image to rhythm. The aim is work that feels honest, intimate, and deeply human.

  • Rooted storytelling — stories grow from ancestry, culture, and personal history.
    Human complexity — identity is layered, fluid, and often unresolved.
    Myth as language — symbolism allows us to speak what realism alone cannot.
    Care over spectacle — emotional resonance matters more than excess.
    Belonging as resistance — we believe home is something you choose and carry.

  • Moura was born from questions of home, loss, and inherited memory. It moves between Rotterdam and Cape Verde, between the lived and the mythic. The story follows a return after death opens a path back to forgotten roots. Folklore becomes a way to speak to what migration often leaves unnamed. At its heart, Moura is about remembering who you are — and choosing to belong.

Script completed · Funding, casting & development underway

CURRENTLY IN PRE-PRODUCTION

  • Luis Alves

    Co-Director/writer

  • Gianinni Semedo Moreira

    Co-Director

  • Pedro Soulé

    Producer KS Cinema

  • Nenass Almeida

    Director of Photography

  • Sai Rodriques

    Key Art Designer

  • HMU

    Sams Semedo

    HMU Artist

  • Oliver Oliveira

    Sound Designer & Production Sound Mixer

  • Cleo Diára

    Lead actress (Moura)

  • Flavio Hamilton

    Supporting actor

Before the film takes shape on screen, it begins here — with the voices and vision behind it. This vignette introduces director Gianinni Semedo Moreira and writer/creator Luis Alves through a creative moment that captures the tone, texture, and soul of Moura

A Visual Prelude to Moura

High in the mountains of Pico da Antónia, on the island of Santiago, Nho Lobo stands shaped by wind, stone, and silence. He belongs to the land as much as the land belongs to him—weathered, watchful, enduring.

This vignette is not a scene from Moura, but a visual meditation created to explore the essence of the character. It serves as a mood piece, helping define Nho Lobo’s presence within the wider world of Moura.

Nho Lobo: Mountain Spirit

MOURA — A Letter to Our Diaspora

This film is for us.

For those who carry Cabo Verde across oceans — in our names, our families, our memories. From Rotterdam to Lisbon, from Paris to Boston, from Rhode Island to Brockton, our stories have always traveled. Not by chance — but by history. For generations, Cape Verdeans have built lives in port cities. Places of departure and arrival. Places where the sea is both distance and connection. From the harbors of Rotterdam, to the docks of Lisbon, to the communities along the East Coast of the United States —Providence, Pawtucket, New Bedford, Brockton — we have always lived between worlds.

MOURA is born from that reality.

It is a story about a man returning home after loss — but also about something deeper: the feeling of belonging everywhere and nowhere at once. This film is already in motion. With support from Cape Verde, including the Ministry of Culture, and ongoing conversations with film funds, we are building this step by step. But this part matters most. This is where the community comes in. This is where we make it together. If you are part of this diaspora — wherever you are — this story already belongs to you. And if you can, in any way, contribute to bringing it to life…you become part of it.

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