Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium and France / 2022 / 83mins / Animation, Historical Drama / Portuguese and Kimbundu

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 provocative rapper who uses her music to promote social change. Lelena tries to keep Yara in check out of concern that the police will show up and arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete, in an encounter like nothing they could have imagined.

José Miguel Ribeiro

José Miguel Ribeiro was born in 1966 in Amadora, Portugal. He graduated in Visual Arts at Fine Art School in Lisbon and studied drawing and puppets animation in Lazzenec-Bretagne – Rennes and in Filmógrafo – Oporto in 1993/4. During several years he taught puppets animation in Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. He was animator of Os Salteadores directed by Abi Feijó among other films. . In 1996 and for the first time, he won an award in Cinanima with O Banquete da Rainha. Learn More