At Least Let Me Climb The Palm Trees / Deixem-me ao Menos Subir às Palmeiras (Portugal, 1974) dir. Lopes Barbosa

Rape by an African foreman leads to the the mounting revolt of the labour force in an African colony. While some are forced to accept their condition of slaves, others prepare themselves to fight back at the armed repression. One of the few anti-colonial films to be produced in Mozambique before independence is DEIXEM-ME AO MENOS SUBIR ÀS PALMEIRAS by Joaquim Lopes Barbosa. Shot in the style of a Russian avant-garde film, it tells the story of the suffering of and revolts carried out by a gang of rural workers. The film was banned by the Portuguese censors at the time and has only recently been given a new reception in Portugal.