Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the April 25th Revolution, this session focuses on the theme ‘War & Peace’.

Nayola: 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.

This session also includes the following short film focusing on ‘War & Peace’:

 

ESTILHAÇOS / FRAGMENTS
José Miguel Ribeiro, 2016, 18’ – Anim.

This is a film about how the war settles in the body of the people who are forced to live it directly in the eye. And then, thousands of miles away and dozens of years ahead, how, like a virus, it can still infect other human beings.