Nayola
By José Miguel Ribeiro • 2022 • Animation • 83
Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter).
Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is finally at peace but Nayola has not returned. Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer. Lelena tries to contain her for fear of the police coming to arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete. An encounter like nothing they could have imagined.
Annecy Official Selection 2022
Guadalajara International Film Festival 2022 – Best International Animated Feature Film
Mozambican Film Festival KUGOMA 2022
Fantoche Festival International du Film d’Animation Baden 2022
Silk Road International Film Festival 2022
Taichung International Animation Festival 2022
Hamburg International Film Festival 2022
Vancouver International Film Festival 2022
BFI London 2022
Animest Bucharest International Animation Film Festival 2022
Haifa International Film Festival 2022
Afrykamera African Film Festival in Warsaw 2022
Bucheon Animation Film Festival 2022
Sevilla European Film Festival 2022 – The New Waves Film Selection Competition, Cinephiles of the Futur Official Selection
Cinemania 2022
Afrikamera 2022
Marrakech International Film Festival 2022 – Séance Spéciale
Manchester Animation Film Festival – BEST FEATURE FILM
Anilogue 2022
Singapore International Film Festival 2022
Silk Road International Film Festival 2022 (Postponed due to Covid)
« Bold and thrilling storytelling which combines its forceful message about the legacy of living through war with an almost mythic quality » - SCREENDAILY
Original title: Nayola
Director: José Miguel Ribeiro
Production company: Praça Filmes, S.O.I.L., JPL Films, il Luster
Country: Portugal, Belgium, France, Netherlands
Production year: 2022
Language: Portuguese, Kimbundu
Runtime: 83
