One Day I Saw 10,000 Elephants

Synopsis: Angono Mba, an octogenarian Guinean native recalls from his living room, his ‎experiences as a porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán during a two-year ‎documentary expedition (1944 to 1946) across colonial Africa, looking for a mysterious lake ‎where a legend says 10.000 elephants live together. From the obsession of the filmmaker and the ‎special relationship between the two men, their different ways of relating to everything that ‎happens during the expedition and the contradictory forms of expressing their feelings comes ‎‎"Un día vi 10.000 elefantes". A history of fascination for Africa, the past and collective memories‎.