# Sol de Carvalho

Sol de Carvalho (João Luís Sol de Carvalho, born 1953) is a Mozambican film director and producer.

## Biography

He grew up in Inhambane and later attended in Lisbon the Escola de Cinema do Conservatório, forerunner of the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. When Mozambique became independent in 1975, he worked as director of the Serviço Nacional da Rádio Moçambique (Radio Mozambique [pt; de]). From 1979 he was a journalist for the Mozambican magazine Tempo with journalist, poet and writer Mia Couto and Albino Magaia. In 1986 he decided to dedicate himself entirely to audiovisual media (cinema and television) as a director and producer. Sol de Carvalho was one of the founders of the Mozambican production company Ébano, together with Pedro Pimenta and Licínio Azevedo), which he later left to start his own new company Promarte.

## Filmography

De Carvalho's films include:
| Year | Film | Genre | Role | Duration (min) |
| 1999 | Muhipiti Alima | Drama short. Alima wants to go to school, but her husband is against it. | Director | 34 m |
| 2004 | The Murmuring Coast / A Costa dos Murmúrios by Margarida Cardoso | Feature | Actor | 120 m |
| 2005 | A Janela | Short | Director | |
| 2006 | Another Man's Garden [es] / O Jardim do Outro Homem | Feature. A university student can be forced by her professor to extend certain favours. | Director, screenwriter, producer | 80 m |
| 2009 | O Búzio | Short drama | Director, producer in Mozambique | 9 m |
| 2011 | Impunidades Criminosas (translated title: Unpunished crimes) | Drama short. Sara reminisces about her life. She killed her violent husband Armando and his ghost tormented her at night. She then had to kill Paixão, Armando's gang leader, as well because he forced her to have sex with him. | Director, producer | 35 m |
| 2012 | A Terra dos Nossos Avós | Documentary short | Producer | 33 m |
| 2015 | Operação Angola - Fugir para Lutar by Diana Andringa (translated title: Operation Angola: fleeing to fight) | Documentary feature. Some 60 students from the Portuguese colonies, including Pedro Pires, Joaquim Chissano, Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem and Pascoal Mocumbi flee Portugal to escape persecution. | Producer in Mozambique | 116 m |
| 2018 | Pele de Luz (translated title: Skin of light) | Short drama documentary. Two albino sisters of Maputo survive attempted kidnapping and live in fear of the rampant belief in black magic. | Co-producer | 19 m |
| 2018 | Mabata Bata | Drama feature, adaptation of Mia Couto's short story O dia em que explodiu Mabata Bata. An ox steps on a land mine from the civil war and its oxherd has to flee. | Director, co-producer | 74 m |
| 2018 | Geração da Independência | Documentary feature | Director | 58 m |
| 2019 | Monólogos com a História | Drama short | Director, screenwriter, producer | 18 m |
| 2021 | Kutchinga | Drama feature. According to the Mozambican tradition called Kutchinga, a widow has to accept sexual relations with the husband's older brother to keep property in the family. A gigolo can be hired to do the job. | Researcher, screenwriter, co-producer, director | 61 m |
| 2022 | O Ancoradouro do Tempo | Feature, adaptation of Mia Couto's book A varanda do frangipani. Police inspector Izidine investigates a murder in an old colonial fortress and old people's home. Everyone confesses. | Director, co-screenwriter with Mia Couto | 105 m |