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- Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique. In one of the grandest hotels in the world, born of and to luxury, today you enter 'at own risk'. More than 2500 people live there without water or electricity. They have taken possession of the building and manipulated not only the stones but also the dreams. A journey through present and past of a city in a city; a story about colonial megalomania, revolutionary vanity and feeling at home.
- Many masks, lots of music, and two African utopias. An essay-opera set in Mozartbique: In a former Grand Hotel live today nearly 3,000 squatters. The hotel guests improvise, play, dance, and celebrate a masked ball, as in an opera by Mozart. At the same time, the film tells the story of the film institute in Maputo that was founded in the 1970s. Jean Rouch and Jean-Luc Godard have taught there. Films were mostly shot on 35mm b&w stock from East-Germany. It was the birth of the image of a nation.
- In the colonial era the Grande Hotel in the city of Beira was the largest in Mozambique: 350 rooms, luxurious suites, Olympic-sized swimming pool... At present the building, which is in ruins, with no electricity or running water, is inhabited by 3500 people. Some have been living there for twenty years. In addition to the rooms, the foyers, corridors, service areas and basement of the hotel - here it's always night-time - also serve as residences. No trace of sadness of self pity in this luminous documentary.