NYAFF30: Nayola + Bazigaga 

Saturday, May 20 at 2PM

Tickets: $15 General Admission/$7 Reduced Price 

Nayola (New York Premiere)

José Miguel Ribeiro, 2022, Portugal, Belgium, France, Netherlands, 83m

Portuguese and Kimbundu with English subtitles

Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter), and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is finally at peace, but Nayola has not returned. Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a provocative rapper who uses her music to promote social change. Lelena tries to keep Yara in check out of concern that the police will show up and arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete, in an encounter like nothing they could have imagined.

Preceded by:

Bazigaga (New York Premiere)
Jo Ingabire Moys, 2022, Réunion, France, 27m

Kinyarwanda with English subtitles

1994, Rwanda. As the civil war rages, Bazigaga takes in a father and daughter hunted by the militia.