Lusophony in the cinema

Abstract

Dreaming and writing it, that was how I started this article in which the memories transported me on a metaphorical journey into the world of the cinema to reflect about Migration and Lusophony, contemplating the intricate paths of the process of identity and otherness. With the methodological support of Autoethnography and the French School of Discourse Analysis, the discursive construction represents the immigrant’s life illustration starting from its origins. Also, as a symbolic object of analysis, the Luso-Brazilian movie Foreign land represents the interweaving between the Brazilians’ disillusion with the Collor Plan and the hope of the Lusophones in the Portugal border and the quest of realizing their dreams.