Nástio Mosquito

Sergio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two inhabitants of the city, Diara and Gui. As neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.

While the center of Angola's capital Luanda is now ranked as one of the most expensive places in the world, the majority of the city's population lives in abject poverty. But young people are rebelling and creating their own counterculture with their own music styles and acrobatic dances, using the "ghetto" as a trademark to define their style.

Portraying a seemingly downtrodden stand-up comedian with a cynical sense of humour, Mosquito’s persona attempts to tell absurd comedic anecdotes in the setting of a typical Flemish cafe. The stories are confounding, the humour falls so flat its beguiling. But more broadly, When Changing Your Mind Gets You Killed can be seen as a meditation on the negative ways in which we perceive the altering of opinions in society today, and our capacity to offer and accept apologies.