Official selection at the Venice Film Festival and several international award winner, ‘Nha Fala’ (My Voice) an interesting French film will be screened at the Alliance Francaise at 3 pm Tuesday on May 12.
Directed by African director, Flora Gomes the film revolves around young and beautiful, Vita who decides to leave her home in West Africa to study in Paris.
It has always been a firm conviction of the family that any woman who sings, will die. Now, while a girl is in France she becomes an international star. She realises that sooner rather than later her mother in Africa will learn that she sings.
To solve this dilemma she goes back to her native village and arranges her own funeral, albeit with instantaneous rebirth. She is lying in the coffin while all invited guests form a queue and pass the coffin one by one. When she needs go to the toilet a boy will take her place. And then one of the guests says: How different she looks after having died.
In 2002, “Nha fala,” Gomes’s fourth feature film, was an official selection at the Venice Film Festival competition. At the parallel competitions in Venice, also in 2002, “Nha fala” won the international prize given by the French Bourse for the best film from the South.
as well as the best Latin film award from the unofficial Venice Film Festival. “Nha fala” won as well the City Prize at the Amiens Festival in 2002 (France), and the Grand Prize at the Vie d’Afrique Festival in Montreal in 2003.
French with English subtitles
Rated: Not rated
The Frech film with English subtitles stars Fatou N’Diaye, Jean-Christophe Dollé, Ângelo Torres, Bia Gomes and Jorge Quintino Biague.
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