The feature film, directed by Angolan Talibán, was one of 282 films that participated in the Brazilian festival, which had as its main theme "Paths, telling stories of black diasporas of the world" and that took place between March 31 and April 9.
According to the director, quoted by Jornal de Angola, the film pays homage to Chico Pululu and Daddy, two Congolese actors who died and had a career in the 80s and 90s.
"Chico played, in the exhibitions, a physically disabled man with mental problems and tried, in his performances, to value him as a human being. Daddy was one of the actors who influenced me to follow performing arts, when I was studying theater and cinema in Kinshasa, as a refugee from the war, from 1993 to 1998," Talibán said.
The director also made it known that the film is spoken in Lingala, but has Portuguese subtitles.
Recorded in 2020 in Luanda, the director indicated that "despite narrating a subject linked to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the distinction happened because it includes cultural values of both peoples, from the way of mourning the dead, to the beliefs in the supernatural and the practices of some traditional religions.
According to Jornal de Angola, the Secretariat of Cine Club Brasil selected the version of the film with English subtitles to integrate its list. The version with French subtitles will compete this year and next in film festivals in French-speaking countries.
