A film by Sana Na N’Hada. On November 13th at the fsk as part of the Afrikamera Festivals. English subtitles.

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NOME, the third fea­ture film by Guinean film­ma­ker Sana Na N’Hada, uses into­xi­ca­ting images to tell the sto­ry of the war of inde­pen­dence in the for­mer Portuguese colo­ny of Guinea-Bissau, which was libe­ra­ted in 1974 after thir­teen years of conflict.

After impreg­na­ting his cou­sin Nambú, the young Nome flees his vil­la­ge in the late 1960s for fear of dis­grace and joins the guer­ril­las. After the war, he moved to Bissau to work as a govern­ment offi­ci­al. While exploi­ting his posi­ti­on for dubio­us busi­ness deals, he denies his vil­la­ge ori­g­ins, betrays his com­ra­des-in-arms and incre­asing­ly loses his con­nec­tion to natu­re and the spi­ri­tu­al world. Eventually, Nome returns to his home vil­la­ge with new plans for the future…

Director Sana Na N’Hada, born in 1950, joi­n­ed Amílcar Cabral’s Marxist guer­ril­las at the age of 16. As he was not fit to fight, he was soon sent to Cuba to train as a film­ma­ker tog­e­ther with four other young Guineans. When he retur­ned to Guinea-Bissau in 1972, he tire­less­ly docu­men­ted the strugg­le of his com­ra­des and the first years of inde­pen­dence until 1977.
The flow of the nar­ra­ti­ve alter­na­tes bet­ween past, pre­sent and future and inter­wea­ves his own docu­men­ta­ry 16 mm archi­ve mate­ri­al with dream-like film images.
NOME pre­mie­red as part of the ACID sel­ec­tion at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was cele­bra­ted at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, not least for its visu­al language.

Credits:

Frankreich / Portugal / Angola 2023 I OmeU I 118 min
Regie: Sana Na N’Hada 
Kamera: João Ribeiro
Schnitt: Sarah Salem
mit: Marcelino António Ingira, Binete Undonque, Marta Dabo, Helena Sanca, Riquelme Biga

Trailer:

Nome – trai­ler | IFFR 2024

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