NOME
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Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war is raging between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea. NOME falls for his cousin Nambu, who has just arrived in the village. After impregnating her, he flees for fear of dishonour and joins the guerrillas. When the war is over, Nome returns to the village with new intentions for his future. In his third feature film, Sana Na N'hada tells the story of the men and women who fought for a free Guinea in which there would no longer be "masters, whites or blacks", with the expectations of independence but also the bitterness of it.
Cooperation: Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Institut der Universität zu Köln
NOME Direction: Sana Na N'Hada, DCP, OmeU,
Guest
In the 1950s, at the Franciscan primary school for "indigenous" pupils, Sana Na N'Hada met teachers active in the National Liberation Movement. In the 1960s, he joined the guerrillas. Amílcar Cabral sent him in 1967 to Cuba to study film at the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos. On his return to Guinea-Bissau, he filmed the war of independence and set up an archive with other filmmakers. In 1978, Na N'Hada became the first director of the National Film Institute, which he ran until 1989. His films deal with the memory of the fight for independence and also take a critical look at independence and the destruction of traditional societies in Guinea-Bissau.