This film has been built from a deep analysis of texts, images and videos of the Portuguese colonial war, with special emphasis in Guinea Bissau, from reports of sons of ex-combatants and from my own experience as a ex-sergeant's son.

The video above, directed by a team of french reporters in Guinea Bissau, alwowed me to enter that war in an human scale. The casual way of shooting an ambush, at minute 5 of this video, reveals the quiet and brutal realism from this war, which has nothing of spectacular about it.

NOTÍCIAS

By publishing the master's thesis about the Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in colonial war veterans' adult offspring, Susana Martinho Oliveira studied and analyzed the dimensions of the Colonial War consequences on the portuguese society.

I'll leave you some links below which have infuenced all the project development work.

"War Traumas: Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in colonial war veterans' adult offspring"

( Susana Martinho de Oliveira - MASTERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Specialization in Stress and Wellbeing - 2008 )