CinemAfrica: Alda and Maria

Por Aqui Tudo Bem, directed byPocas Pascoal, PT, 94 min., Portugese with English subtitles

Our exploration of African cinema continues with the story of one generation by the Angolan female director Pocas Pascoal. Her slightly autobiographical film takes place in Lisbon in 1980 after the arrival of two adolescent sisters Alda and Maria. They had to flee their homeland Angola because of the civil war and ended up in the new city – alone and wandering. The sun lit film talks about adolescence and the experience of the colonized, following the first weeks of the new life of immigrants in an unknown place – where every little victory on their way to independence is only temporary.