Spring 2026 Screenings Harpur Cinema: Harpur Cinema Presents: Spell Reel

Spring 2026 Screenings Harpur Cinema:
Harpur Cinema Presents: Spell Reel
Filipa Cesar, France, 2017, 96 min.
Friday, March 6, 2026, and Sunday, March 8, 2026: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $4 Single Admission. Students with ID are FREE.

At once archive, memory, and cinematic voyage, Spell Reel traces a sea change in post-colonial African cinema through the collaboration of Portuguese filmmaker Filipa César and Guinean directors Sana na N'Hada and Flora Gomes. During Guinea-Bissau's war of independence (1963–74), N'Hada and Gomes documented the liberation struggle, working under Amílcar Cabral's decolonizing vision and trained by radical filmmaker Chris Marker. Decades later, César joins them as they return to those original sites, screening the footage for local audiences—many seeing it for the first time in fifty years. Spell Reel becomes both an evocation of revolutionary cinema's spirit and a living archive of its improbable emergence: cinema as collective memory, as pedagogy, as antidote to our current crisis.

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