Filmmaker and writer, he has lived in Mozambique since 1978, prior to which he lived in Guinea-Bissau, where he worked as a journalist. His work has kept track of the country’s independence process virtually from the start. He was one of the founders of the Mozambican film company Ébano Multimídia. At the Mozambique National Film Institute, where he worked since his arrival in the country, he collaborated with the directors Ruy Guerra and Jean Luc Godard. He has directed both fictional and documentary films, favoring the latter when it came to telling stories of the present, and the former for past events and memories. An admirer of the new American journalism, he sought out a fictional perspective as far back as his early reports on the war in Guinea-Bissau. Later on, as a film director, he began to tackle reality through fiction, and to provide documentaries with a dramaturgical structure. His works include O Grande Bazar, from 2006; A Ponte, from 2001; A Última Prostituta, from 2009; and Virgem Margarida, from 2012, the latter two recount post-independence history from a female perspective.