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Martin Dale ContributorJosé Miguel Ribeiro’s feature debut “Nayola,” one of two Portuguese full-length animation pics screening at Annecy Animation Film Festival, portrays the fate of a grandmother, a mother and her daughter – Lelena, Nayola and Yara – in the aftermath of the Angolan civil war.Nayola searches for her husband, Ekumbi, who went missing during the war. She abandons her daughter, Yara, at the age of only two, who is then brought up by her grandmother, Lelena.

Martin Scorsese’s nonprofit The Film Foundation is launching a free virtual screening room to showcase restored films starting May 9 with I Know Where I’m Going!.

It was a courageous gesture that made global headlines and changed the lives of millions.

Starz is developing a drama series centered on the life of African Warrior Queen Nzinga with American Gods’ Yetide Badaki set to star in the main role.

“Army Of The Dead: Lost Vegas” and “American Gods” star Yetide Badaki has been cast as the lead in “Queen Nzinga,” an African-warrior-queen drama from 50 Cent and Steven S. DeKnight in the works at Starz, the pay TV channel said Thursday.

Countries have tightened up travel restrictions in an effort to curb the spread of the Omicron variant.

Four more countries will be added to Scotland’s red list amid fears over the Omicron coronavirus variant.

As the country with the highest number of prisoners under lock and key, perhaps it’s not surprising that many of our correctional institutions have taken on a mythic status, their names alone sending a chill: Sing Sing, San Quentin, Folsom, Leavenworth, Joliet, Marion, Angola.

DEALSSpanish rights management organisation Unison has announced a partnership with SADIA, the song rights collecting society in Angola, which will see the former rep the latter’s works in the digital domain across Europe. Earlier this month Unison announced another deal with Brazilian music rights agency Smart Rights.

Princess Diana did it twice.On Jan. 15, 1997, Diana walked gingerly down a narrow path cleared through an Angolan minefield, wearing a protective visor and flak jacket emblazoned with the name of The HALO Trust, a group devoted to removing mines from former war zones.

Ed Meza @edmezavarPalestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir’s Gaza-set drama “The Oblivion Theory” has won the top prize at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.Presented by Paris-based Incognito Films and Berlin’s One Two Films, the film is based on José Eduardo Agualusa’s novel “A General Theory of Oblivion,” although the book’s story has been moved from Angola to Palestine during the First Intifada, the sustained protests by Palestinians against Israel occupation that lasted from 1987 to 1993.The

Nicola Sturgeon to let him bury his dad after returning from work abroad and being put in self-isolation.Oil worker Liam Limond was working offshore in Angola when he got the shock news that his dad John died suddenly on Monday.Now, he has pleaded with the Scottish Government for special permission to say a final farewell to his 81-year-old father - as he will be forced into self-isolation on his return this weekend.Liam said he felt left in the lurch by politicians and government officials as

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No one’s immigration story is the same. And in the new film “Farewell Amor,” we get a peek into how three different people from Angola adjust to life in the United States.

coronavirus pandemic.It was picked up in Angola, where a video showed a group of people interrupting their meal to do a line dance to the song.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Films has nabbed North American rights to “Farewell Amor,” the story of Angolan immigrants making a life for themselves in New York City, Variety has learned.The film received critical acclaim when it premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It is written and directed by Sundance Institute fellow Ekwa Msangi and marks her feature directorial debut.

Former Morocco coach Herve Renard has apologised for leaving out the name of Hakim Ziyech in a select XI of the best African players he has managed.

Meet the elephants that are on parade for an entire year.

Curzon has announced that it will still release Moffie on 24th April, though it will go directly to their home streaming service. They add that a theatrical release will still go ahead at a later date when cinemas start to open up following the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.

Moffie director, Oliver Hermanus

Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus (“The Farm: Angola, USA,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”) turns to dramatized true crime with a grim story many New Yorkers will know: the string of murders of young women on the south shore of Long Island, whose bodies were uncovered between 2010 and 2011, and whose killer has yet to be found.

Documentarian Liz Garbus, who makes her narrative feature directing debut adapting Robert Kolker’s 2013 serial-killer best-seller “Lost Girls,” knows a gripping true story when she hears one. Two of her documentaries, “What Happened, Miss Simone?” and “The Farm: Angola, USA,” were Oscar-nominated.

Gary Holt says he hopes a return to Livingston will bring out the best of Dolly Menga after the attacker’s loan spell at Atletico Petroleos was cut short prior to the transfer deadline.

Slowly, the news filtered through to a little commune called Mantes-la-Jolie, 30 miles west of Paris.

Livingston have announced that Angolan international Dolly Menga has returned to the club for the second half of the season.

In her feature-length debut Farewell Amor, Ekwa Msangi explores the meaning of home for an Angolan immigrant family newly reunited in New York City after almost two decades apart.According to the United Nations, the United States currently hosts 51 million international migrants (about 19 percent of the world’s population), the largest number of any country in the world.

There are small, telling differences in the way each of the three long-separated main characters in “Farewell Amor” remembers the day of their reunion. Standing at JFK, awkwardly clutching a bunch of flowers to give to the wife and child he has not seen in 17 years, Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine from “The Chi”), a soft-spoken Angolan taxicab driver greets Sylvia (Jayme Lawson), the teenage stranger who is his daughter, and she is surly and unsmiling.

Man City have made contact with French club Rennes about their young midfielder Eduardo Camavinga, according to reports.

A breezily off-beat affair from the West African coastal nation of Angola, Air Conditioner (Ar condicionado) should beguile and captivate those able to adapt to its idiosyncratic rhythms and humor. A highly accomplished and promising first full-length fictional outing for US-trained mono-monikered multi-hyphenate "Fradique" (a.k.a.

Coréon Dú (Photo: Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura CDMX)