José Miguel Ribeiro | Portugal | 2022 | 90’

WOW FILM  FESTIVAL SCREENING

A fascinating animated feature from Portuguese filmmaker José Miguel Ribeiro. In Angola, three generations of women endure a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace as 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. Her daughter Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer, while 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.

£7.70 (£5.90)