Section: Long Films
Country: Angola, Portugal
Production Year: 2012
Runtime: 94 Minutes
Director: Pocas Pascoal
Screenwriters: Pocas Pascoal, Marc Pernet
Cinematographer: Octavio Esp?rito Santo
Editor: Pascale Chavance
Music Composers: Lulendo Mvulu
Cast: Ciomara Morais, Cheila Lima, Willion Brandao, Vera Cruz
Synopsis: In the late summer of 1980, sixteen years old Alda and her seventeen years old sister Maria arrive in Lisbon to escape the civil war in Angola. Left to themselves, they must learn to survive in a foreign city. While the two young women try to build a new life, they face unbearable problems with dreadful news fall upon them. Paradoxically, it’s those terrifying news that gives them the strength to decide their own fates.
