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Nome

Sana Na N’Hada
Human Rights & Society Politics & War 2023 112 min Guinea-Bissau, France, Portugal, Angola
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Synopsis

An intimate, feminist and political odyssey.

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. After years, he will return as a hero, but joy will soon give way to bitterness and cynicism.

With its dreamlike photography, Nome follows the intimate trajectory of two characters who love each other, are separated by life and become diametrically opposed beings, built against the brutality of what is rocking their country. A great upheaval.


Accessible from 16 and over

Cast/Avec

  • Marcelino António Ingira
  • Binete Undonque
  • Marta Dabo

Screenplay

  • Virgílio Almeida et Olivier Marboeuf
  • based on an original idea of Sana Na N’Hada

Cinematographer

  • João Ribeiro

Sound

  • Tristan Pontécaille

Music

  • Remna Schwarz

Production

  • LX Filmes
  • Spectre Productions

Screenings

Friday 01 March 2024 16:30
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : Portuguese
Subtitles : English,French
Screening : Public Screening
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Thursday 07 March 2024 13:30
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : Portuguese
Subtitles : English,French
Screening : Public Screening
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Critics

« Nome is a film over 50 years in the making. »
Redmond Bacon Journey into cinema 19/05/2023

Sana Na N’Hada

Sana Na N’Hada
Sana Na N’Hada

Sana Na N’Hada was born in Guinea-Bissau in 1950. Sent to Cuba by revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral with four other apprentice filmmakers, he studied at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industries. On his return to Guinea, he filmed the war of independence. His cinema would subsequently take shape as he moved back and forth between the memory of the Portuguese occupation, the struggle for independence and a meditation on the destruction of traditional societies in Guinea-Bissau.

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Filmography

  • Nome 2023
  • Os Escultores de Espíritos (short film) 2015
  • Kadjike 2013
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