Cesária Évora dissects the life of the singer who found success on in the international music scene at the age of fifty and took the Cape Verdean morna everywhere.
Cesária Évora, known as the "diva with bare feet", had a fascinating life in which her passion for music cannot be separated from colonial Cape Verde and her commitment to the freedom of her people. In this documentary by Ana Sofia Fonseca we discover, through personal archive material and unpublished interviews, the strength and empowerment of a woman who became a legend by triumphing on the world music scene in her early fifties and taking the Cape Verdean morna everywhere. Cesária Évora traces her diverse political and social contexts, and the universal themes of freedom and racial and gender inequality. In addition, it captures the poetry of the sea, land and air of Cape Verde that shaped the woman and the artist, a feminist force and a pioneering African icon.
