In Japanese, the term “hanami” denotes the custom of viewing the bloom of cherry blossoms (sakura) in springtime. What mysterious oceanic journey takes it from Japan’s volcanic archipelago to the equally eruptive Cape Verde, where Denise Fernandes quite literally roots her debut feature film? A word, a tree, a land that everyone either seems to have left or wants to leave, and Nana, or more precisely the three ages of Nana from her birth, her feverish early childhood to her seventeenth year. Nana is left behind by her mother, Nia, who went far way to get treated for a strange illness and never returned. Avoiding yet not repressing the coming-of-age story, Hanami offers an unpredictable, ambitious and poetic reflection on the Cape Verde people torn between here and elsewhere, between the pain of exile and insular isolation, a rock between land and sea. JB
Hanami
(Hanami)
- Switzerland
- Portugal
- Cap Vert
- 2024
- Fiction
- Couleur
- 93′
- Cape Verdean Creole, Japanese, French, English
- Titre français
Hanami - Original title
Hanami - Titre international
Hanami - Scénario
Denise FERNANDES, Telmo CHURRO - Photo
Alana MEJIA GONZALEZ - Montage
Selin DETTWILER - Son
Etienne CURCHOD - Musique
Rahel ZIMMERMANN - Interprétation
Sanaya ANDRADE, Daílma MENDES, Alice DA LUZ - Production
Alina Films, O SOM E A FÚRIA - Ventes internationales
MoreThan Films : morethan@morethan-films.com - Support de projection
DCP