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Margarida Cardoso

IndieLisboa 2019 • Special Screenings

Portugal, Documentary, 2019, 81′

A personal essay on a plant and all its cultural and economic ramifications: cocoa. Traveling through São Tomé and Príncipe, England and Brazil, the director walks us from past to present, dismantling the schemes of European colonial oppression.

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