Nayola - Writers Unlimited

• Date: 23 January
• Time: 16:00
• Location: Filmhuis Den Haag

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.

José Eduardo Agualusa, the Angolan writer and co-author of the play on which Nayola, the striking 2023 Portuguese animated film for adults, is based, will talk about the story behind the film prior to the screening. He will be interviewed by Maarten van Munster, a human rights lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and a PhD candidate studying the reconciliation process in Angola.

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