NOME
Sana na N’hada
2023 Guinea-Bissau, France, Portugal, Angola, 112min.
Feature film, color/ black and white, Creole, Portuguese with English subtitles
SATURDAY 08. NOVEMBER 2025 | 20H
MOVIE 2 | MOVIEMENTO
Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. 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. A special feature of Nome is the archival footage from the time originally shot by Na N’Hada and his comrades.
Sana Na N’Hada, born in Guinea-Bissau in 1950, is one of the pioneering voices of African cinema. Chosen by revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral and sent to Cuba with four other young talents, he trained at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry before returning home to film the war of independence. Ever since, his work has moved between the memory of Portuguese colonial rule, the struggles for liberation, and a poetic meditation on the destruction of Guinea-Bissau’s traditional societies – and with them, an ecological worldview in which humanity acknowledges its deep belonging to the forces of nature. 2024 marked his long-awaited return to Cannes after 30 years, following the presentation of his landmark film Xime in the Official Selection Un Certain Regard in 1994.
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