Gold Songs

Ico Costa

Fiction / 103 / Mini-DV / Portugal, França / 2024

Domingos and Neusia are a young couple from a small city in Mozambique. She goes to school, he has an underpaid job at a car wash. Yearning for a better life, Domingos sets on a journey through Mozambique, heading to the gold mines in the north of the country. In the meantime, Neusia waits at home. Soon enough, she has news.
with DOMINGOS MARENGULA, NEUSIA GUIAMBA writer and director ICO COSTA director of photography RAUL DOMINGUES, ICO COSTA sound direction LUÍS DUZENTA, PAULO LIMA editing CLÉMENT PINTEAUX sound editing THOMAS VAN POTTELBERGE, NASSIM EL MOUNABBIH sound mix SIMON APOSTOLOU color grading JULIA MINGO production director JULIA ALVES production OUBLAUM FILMES, LA BELLE AFFAIRE PRODUCTIONS funding ICA, CNC, EURIMAGES

World Premiere: IndieLisboa 2024 (National Competition)*

Festivals: IndieLisboa IFF 2024, FIDMarseille 2024, Mostra de São Paulo IFF 2024, Caminhos do Cinema Português 2024

* MAX Award for Best National Feature Film – IndieLisboa 2024
* European Student Award by the Vacances Bleues Foundation – FIDMarseille 2024

* Special Mention by the Univesties Jury for Best Portuguese Feature Film at IndieLisboa IFF
* Special Mention for the École de la 2e Chance Award.