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Nayola

Feature | 80 min


Angola. Three generations of women stricken by war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Luana (granddaughter). Two narrative times that come together to reveal an undying love. In the past, Nayola sets off in search of her husband, missing in combat, and finds herself on an endless, devastating and mysterious trail. In the present, Lelena and Luana endure a double threat, a masked intruder breaks into their house and the police come to arrest Luana for political agitation.

Director: José Miguel Ribeiro
Script: Virgílio Almeida based on the play “A Caixa Preta”, by Jose Eduardo Agualusa and Mia Couto
Produced by : Praça Filmes (Portugal) , SOIL (Belgium), JPL Films (France), il Luster (Netherlands)

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