XIME
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In 1963, the rice harvest was looking good and the village of XIME was optimistic. But Lala, widower and father of Raùl and Bedan, remained worried. Raùl, his eldest son, was studying with the priests in Bissau, but the colonial authorities were looking for him. As for Bedan, who had stayed in the village, he had reached the age of adolescence when young people think they can do anything. Raùl returns to the village with revolutionary ideas. Conceived as the first part of a trilogy about war, director Sana Na N'Hada's first feature film follows the destiny of a Bissau-Guinean family whose environment is turned upside down by the arrival of war.
Cooperation: Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Insitut der Universität zu Köln
XIME Direction: Sana Na N'Hada, DCP, OmeU, 95 min
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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.