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Fernanda Polacow
Big Bang Henda
Doc. expérimental | digital | couleur | 22:0 | Brésil, Portugal | 2023
Renversant statues et symboles, construisant de nouveaux souvenirs, encadrant le paysage détruit, écrivant des lettres pour l'avenir, inversant les dynamiques de pouvoir : BIG BANG HENDA est un documentaire-poésie-manifeste sur le travail de l'artiste angolais Kiluanji Kia Henda. Il nous emmène dans un voyage à travers ses créations et réflexions, qui sont à l'avant-garde de la pensée anticoloniale, nous exhortant à réfléchir sur la manière dont les générations qui ont grandi pendant ou à la suite de la guerre réinterprètent cet événement.
Fernanda is a screenwriter and director, living between Brazil and Portugal. She has been working in the intersections between Brazil, Portugual and the African Portuguese speaking countries and former colonies of Portugal for decades. Her first feature as a writer, Mosquito, was the opening film at the Rotterdam FF (2020) and won the Critics Prize at the São Paulo International FF (2020) besides touring dozens of festivals. Her second feature, The Last Summer, is currently in production after being selected for the Script Station at Berlinale 2023 and RACCONTI. She has been developing, writing, and directing for TV, streaming and cinema, and some of her works have received awards and nominations at the Brazilian Cinema Academy, New York TV&Film Festival, Hollywood Woman’s FF, among others. She is part of the Torino Film Lab 2023. She is a co-founder of MUTIM, a woman in film association in Portugal.