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Ondjaki makes director's debut at Rotterdam Film Festival

The film “I'm going to change the kitchen”, which addresses the Angolan Civil War, marks Ondjaki's film debut. The Angolan writer and director will show his film at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

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With a duration of about half an hour, the film is in black and white, tells the story of a young widow haunted by the Civil War in Angola and has an original soundtrack composed by Filipe Raposo.

At the festival, in addition to the Angolan film, new films by Pedro Neves Marques, Leonor Noivo, Ágata de Pinho and Edgar Pêra will also be presented.

Additionally, the main competition of the festival, which goes online again this year due to the covid-19 pandemic, includes "A Criança", by Marguerite de Hillerin and Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois, shot in Portugal with production by Leopardo Filmes.

In the short film competition at the festival will be the films "Becoming Male in the Middle Ages", by Pedro Neves Marques, and "Marugada", by Leonor Noivo, who makes her international debut after winning the prize for best film from the national competition at Curtas de Vila do Conde.

Ágata de Pinho will present "Azul" in the "Short & Medium Duration" section, a 20-minute film that the festival describes as "a master's debut". In the same section, Angolan writer and director Ondjaki shows "I'm going to change the kitchen", described by Rotterdam as a "poetic monologue" by a young widow haunted by Angola's Civil War.

Also in this category will be "As sacrificed", by Aurélie Oliveira Pernet, a Portuguese-Swiss co-production by GoldenEggProduction with Primeira Age, which portrays a woman and her mother in a Portuguese countryside devastated by fires, according to the synopsis.

In the section "Cinema Recuperado", which presents "restored classics, documentaries on cinematographic culture and explorations of cinema's heritage", the historical "Sambizanga", by Frenchwoman Sarah Maldoror, about the Angolan War of Independence, will be screened.

Earlier, it had already been announced that Edgar Pêra would take his "Kinorama" to the Netherlands, after being the subject of a retrospective for that festival in 2019.

The 51st edition of the Rotterdam International Film Festival will run from 26 January to 6 February. It will be the second consecutive edition that the festival organizes only 'online'.

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