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Two Refusals &
An Impossible Address + Q&A
Institute of Contemporary Arts
An Impossible Address dir. Suneil Sanzgiri, USA/India/Angola/Portugal 2025, 38 mins, English & Portuguese with English subtitles

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Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) dir. Suneil Sanzgiri, USA/India/Portugal 2024, 35 mins, Konkani and English with English subtitles
 
Two Refusals traces interwoven histories of resistance to Portuguese colonialism across India and Africa and the solidarities that emerged through their shared struggle. The film centres on the story of a woman whose dreams are shaped by the figure of the Adamastor, a mythological storm that features in Portuguese epic poetry. First appearing in the poem “Os Lusíadas”, the Adamastor sought to destroy the 15th century Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama on his voyage to India and embodies an early form of resistance. Sanzgiri combines interviews with fictional elements and employs a range of visual formats, including CGI animation, Super 16mm film, and hand-processed archival footage. Moving between Goa, Mozambique, Angola, and Guinea-Bissau, the film maps a complex network of relations connecting anti-colonial figures and movements shaped by a common imperial power. 
 
An Impossible Address dir. Suneil Sanzgiri, USA/India/Angola/Portugal 2025, 38 mins, English & Portuguese with English subtitles
 
A restless quest through spaces of mobilising and commemorating decolonial practice, An Impossible Address documents the itineraries and encounters produced by the voracity of the Portuguese imperial project, as told through its unwitting progeny. Haunting and hypnotic, the film follows the trace of Sita Valles, a freedom fighter for Angola’s liberation movement of Goan heritage, moving in a surreal blur between CGI landscapes, the backstreets of Lisbon and the museums of Luanda, where empire manifests in both the monumental and the mundane. Archival images of those who, like Sita, bridged geographies of decolonial thought and revolution surface throughout, at times distorted or submerged, at others possessing a resurrectory charge, arranged as though to enter into communion with one another. 
 
Followed by a Q&A with Suneil Sanzgiri. 
 
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08:00 pm
Sat, 18 Apr 2026
Cinema 1
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