Nossa Terra is a film about struggle, a film about urgency, shot in the midst of the guerrilla war during the armed conflict for independence in Guinea-Bissau in the mid-1960s. Before becoming a committed filmmaker, Mario Marret had been a member of the Resistance, an anarchist activist, a radio operator, and an explorer. Moving within French anti-colonial activist circles, he became close to the PAIGC (the movement for the independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), which was then interested in cinema as a tool of combat. He would be the first filmmaker to go into the maquis. "It was a testimony. No matter the format, no matter the camera, no matter all these things, a filmmaker was there. The filmmaker must be where the world is being made and when it is being made