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On 07, Jun 2019 | No Comments | In | By Tilovita

FotogrÁFRICA – Documentary (2016)

Documentary | 2016 | 25 min

Synopsis

Through a mural of photographs, Tila Chitunda recreates the trajectory of her family who must leave Angola and take refuge in Olinda, Brazil in the late 1970s because of a civil war. Divided between the memories of the family and the manifestations of African origin that she finds in Pernambuco, her native land, the director,  the only Brazilian daughter of this family, goes in search of her roots.

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Name of Baptism – Frances – Documentary (2019)

[Documentary | 2019 | 16 min

SYNOPSIS

The director immerses herself in her father’s past by meeting the nun who helped her family flee the Angola Civil War in the 1970s. They came to Olinda and, as a tribute, the first daughter born in Brazil won the name of this woman.

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