London International Pan-African Film Festival (London PAFF 2024) showcasing outstanding Pan-African films produced in Africa and the Diaspora (Europe, Caribbean countries, USA, Latina America), and from all over the world, at the West Norwood Picturehouse from 18 to 25 October 2024. See today’s line-up below!
15h10 MONA WAZEDIWA + Q&A
Herinque SUNGO, Documentary Short Film (Angola), 2024, 13 min
Humberto Paulo is a brave young Angolan and survivor of several wars, including the Angolan armed conflict and polio. After his adolescence he emigrated to Portugal and continued his studies and basketball career for people with disabilities. Now graduated and with a beautiful family, he is leaving several examples of overcoming.
15h40 NAYOLA
José Miguel Ribeiro, Animation Feature Film (Angola), 2022, 1 hour 23 min
Angola. Three generations of women: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Luana (the granddaughter) deeply plagued by civil war. The imagination of an orphan girl reinvents her mother as a heroin on the sheets of a journal, where memories and masks, utopias and cruelties, reality and magic emerge, mesh together and fall apart. A suspended love, a fearless quest on a military landscape, a lacerating regret, an initiatory journey. In the end, a tragic reunion during peacetime, in a country undergoing a true metamorphosis, pregnant with hope.
17h03 BARBER
Ngouabi Silva, Narrative Short Film (Angola), 2022, 37 min
A wave of murders of women in the Municipality of Cazenga in Luanda, leads to a lengthy police investigation that points to a Barber as the main suspect who openly demonstrates a hatred for women, considering them despicable beings.
18h30 PANEL: ANGOLAN CINEMA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
19h00 "ONDJELUA" - THE RAIN FESTIVAL
Eurico "Gigio" Pereira, Documentary Feature Film (Angola) 2023, 1 hour
In the forgotten heart of the Huíla province in Angola, there exists an ancient people surviving the modern world. A people woven from rituals and stories, their wellspring of culture slowly drying up, struggling to endure in a technological, globalized world. Through the Sacred Ox procession, the Mumuíla initiate the Ondjélua. A tradition upholding culture - and hope - with ancient wisdom, yearning to be shared.
20h05 FOR JADE + Q&A
Baruch Nsangu Tadisi, Narrative Feature Film (Angola), 2023, 1h40 min
Suzana, an outgoing Angolan girl, falls in love with Bakary, a Malian merchant living in Angola with whom she marries, thus forcing her family to accept their cultural differences. 3 years later Bakary is summoned urgently by his native tribe to deal with questions related to the family inheritance. Suzana decides to accompany her husband and takes her 3-year-old daughter Jade with her. Once in Mali, Suzana discovers that she is the fourth official wife of Bakary and she is forced to live in the same house with the 3 wives of her husband.
