This program, drawn from the Institut français's Cinémathèque Afrique catalog, offers an opportunity to discover recent and often unreleased works by emerging filmmakers from the African continent.
Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea. 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.
Sana Na N'Hada
Sana Na N'Hada is a filmmaker from Guinea-Bissau. At the age of 13, he joined the fight for his country's independence. Noticed by revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral, he was sent to Cuba at 17, along with Flora Gomes, Josefina Lopes Crato, and José Bolama Cobumba, to study cinema and document their cause. He began his filmmaking career with two short films made in collaboration with Flora Gomes. In 1978, he co-founded and became the director of the Instituto Nacional de Cinema e Audiovisual de Guinée-Bissau (INCA). In his film Nome, presented in the ACID section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, he combines archival footage from the 1970s with a fictional narrative. The film tells the story of a freedom fighter who turns to crime after his country's independence. His cinema intertwines the independence struggles against Portuguese occupation with a reflection on the destruction of traditional societies in Guinea-Bissau. He portrays an ecological model where humans embrace natural forces to face modern challenges.
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