Marrabentando: The Stories My Guitar Sings
“Marrabentando: the stories my guitar sings” (52m 2005) brings the history and identity of Mozambique to life through the lives and stories of two of it’s old musicians Antonio Marcos and Dilon Djinji, who have sung their way through their country’s rapid historical transformation over the past 40 years from colonialism to communism, through war and famine to the growing and stable yet still struggling nation of today.
Marrabentando: The Stories My Guitar Sings
"Marrabentando: the stories my guitar sings” (52m 2005) - Broadcast on RTP, RTPI, SABC,TVM,
On tour in South Africa with their band made up of young talents who mix up Marrabenta rhythms with Hip-Hop and Jazz, Dilon Djinji and Antonio Marcos tell their stories. Evoking the spirit of Mozambique – love and passion, separation and union, tears and laughter, war and peace, they share their philosophical vision based on a life ‘Marrabentando’.
BEST TV DOCUMENTARY (Jury’s Prize) & BEST FILM (Public Vote)Caminhos de Cinema Portugues (Paths of Portuguese Cinema, Portugal) (2006)
BEST DOCUMENTARY (Jury’s Special Mention) & Audience Choice Award (Best Documentary) Cineport I (Lusophone Film Festival, Brazil) (2006)
Dilon Djinji and Antonio Marcos share their philosophies on life; "Don't miss out on the sweet honey of life" says Dilon Djinji. "Suffering is easy" says Antonio Marcos, "It's not suffering that's difficult".
Dilon records a new version of his 1950's classic "Podina" with the hip hop band Mabulu and tells of the story behind the song.
Marrabenta star Dilon Djinji tells members of his young band, Mabulu, about the trials he had as a youngster to become a musician. He shows his grandchildren how to make a tin can guitar so they can dance Marrabenta, just as he used to do as a child in the 1930's.
Dilon Djinji celebrates happiness with his family and friends as they dance traditional Marrabenta around a fire in the community where the dance originated in the 1930's.