OUR LADY OF THE CHINESE SHOP
Ery Claver
Angola 2022, 98 minutes, color
Feature film
Portuguese and Chinese with English subtitles

FRIDAY 25. OCTOBER 2024 | 18H
MOVIE 2 | MOVIEMENTO

A raving poetic tale about power, family and revenge at Luanda’s heart.
When a chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for his lost friend. This delicate urban tale will reveal a family and city facade full of resentment, greed and torment. 

Ery Claver is one of the most versatile filmmakers in Angola. He began his career as a cameraman, working on numerous television programs and documentaries. In 2013 he joined the collective Geração 80 and deepened his style as Director of Photography working on the short films Concrete Affection - Zopo Lady (2014), and Havemos de Voltar (2017), both directed by Kiluanji Kia Henda. As a director he has signed several short films, most notably Lucy in the Sky with Traffic Lights (2018) in partnership with Gretel Marín and Enóquio que não tinha coração (2020) in partnership with his brother, Evan Clever. Ery has had his work screened at several international festivals, most notably the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, in France, VIDEOEX - International Experimental Film and Video Festival, in Zurich, and FCAT - African Film Festival, in the cities of Tarifa and Tangier. In 2019, Ery went on to co-write and do the direction of photography of the award winning Angolan film Air Conditioner, directed by Fradique. Recently he just finished directing his first feature film Our Lady of the Chinese Shop.

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