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At a Traffic Light

2024 · 20 min

A quiet, hopeful documentary that watches a man's small daily struggle to learn with patience and dignity.

Genres: Documentary
Starring: Catarina Sive, Nelson Ubisse

Overview: We all have a dream... Nelson's dream is to learn how to read. He works at a traffic light in Maputo selling car products to people who stop. Every week a teacher joins him and all the others like him to teach them. With the hope of learning, Nelson never misses a class. It is with the hope of better days that Nelson lives.

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Genres: Documentary
Starring: Catarina Sive, Nelson Ubisse

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Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: education
ambition
class
work
identity
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	0
Horror	0
Humour	1
Realism	10
Romance	0
Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: documentary
Starring: Catarina Sive, Nelson Ubisse
Cinematography: Romeu Carvalho
Runtime: 20 min
Languages: Portuguese

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