Synopsis
Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter).
Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is finally at peace but Nayola has not returned. Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer. Lelena tries to contain her for fear of the police coming to arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete. An encounter like nothing they could have imagined.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : JPL Films
- Foreign production companies : Praça Filmes, SOIL Productions, Il Luster Films, Luna Blue Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Urban Sales
- French distribution : Urban Distribution
Full credits (9)
- Screenwriter : Virgilio Almeida
- Music Composer : Alex Dibicki
- Foreign producers : Serge Kestemont, Michiel Snijders
- Authors of original work : Mia Couto, José Eduardo Angualusa
- Co-producers : Jean-François Bigot, Camille Raulo
- Press Attaché (film) : Claire Vorger
- Animation : Johanna Bessière, Lionel Chauvin
- Artistic Director : José Miguel Ribeiro
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : Animated film, Drama, Women
- Themes : Conflict
- Production language : Portuguese
- Coproducer countries : Portugal (48.53%), Belgium (24.89%), The Netherlands (14.45%), France (12.13%)
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Awards (3)
Stuttgart Trickfilm International Animated Film Festival
Germany, 2023
AniMovie - Prix du meilleur film d'animation