NOME (21:30, Cinema ZED)
Vrijdag 26 april, 21u30
Cinema ZED Vesalius, Andreas Vesaliusstraat 9c, 3000 Leuven
NOME
Sana na N’hada / Guinée-Bissau, Frankrijk, Portugal, Angola / 2023 / 115 min.
Cast: Marceline António Ingira, Binete Undinque
VO: Portugese, Creole
ST: English
Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. Nome leaves his village and joins the Maquis resistance group. After years, he will return as a hero, but joy will soon give way to bitterness and cynicism.
Sana Na N'Hada's approach is minimal and stylised, but bursting with lyrical splendour and spiritual mystery. Exploring the hopeful, utopian dimension of African revolutionary movements, Nome takes a close look at the seeds of corruption and betrayal that, in retrospect, were always there. Yet despair is never embraced.