Director:
Fernanda Polacow
Performances:
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Production:
Bruno Moraes Cabral
Cinematography:
Kamy Lara
Sound Director:
Bruno Moraes Cabral
Original Soundtrack:
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Tiago Oliveira
Editing:
Micael Espinha
Bruno Moraes Cabral
Production Company:
Wonder Maria Filmes
With:
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Orlando Sérgio
Nark Luenzi
Gegé M’bakudi
Adelino Fernandes (Didi)
Mussunda N’Zombo
Pamina Sebastião
Irene A’mosi
Adolfina Lua
Helder Mendes
Director’s profile:
Fernanda is a screenwriter, director and script consultant, living between Brazil and Portugal. 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. As a script consultant she has worked for Cabíria Festival, Projeto Paradiso, GUIÕES, PLOT and as mentor of IndieLab, the IndieLisboa FF’s project development workshop. She is a co-founder of MUTIM, a woman in film association in Portugal.
AWARDS
Special Mention – Le FIFA 2024
Best Director – FICA 2024
Best Pitch Award – Sunny Side of the doc 2021
FESTIVALS
2023
Doc Lisboa (Portugal) – World Premiere
Porto/Post/Doc (Portugal) – National Competition
2024
International Festival of Films on Art (Canadá) – Special Mention of the Jury
Porto Femme (Portugal) – National Competition
FICA – International Environmental Movie and Video Festival (Goiás, Brasil)
– Best Director Award
CineOp (Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Kinoforum Short Film Festival (São Paulo, Brazil) – International Competition
Festival Olhares do Mediterraneo (Portugal) – National Competition
CineECO (Seia, Portugal) – National Short Film Competition
Alexandre Trauner ART/Film Festival (Hungary) – International Competition
Entretodos – Humans Rights Film Festival (Brazil)
Festival Play (Argentina) – International Competition
Film Festival Amazon (Manaus, Brazil) – International Competition
Entre Olhares – Portuguese Film Festival (Barreiro, Portugal)
Kinoarte Film Festival (Paraná, Brasil) – International Competition
Festival Film Dokumenter (Indonesia) – International Competition
MICAR – Antiracist International Film Festival (Portugal)
FestCurtasBH (Minas Gerais, Brazil) – International Competition
Filmfest Düsseldorf (Germany) – International Competition
Macau Int. Short Film Festival (Macau/China) – International Competition
Rencontre International Paris/Berlin (Paris/Berlin)
Synopsis:
Toppling statues and symbols, constructing new memories, framing the destroyed landscape, writing letters to the future, reversing power dynamics: BIG BANG HENDA is a documentary-poetry-manifesto about the work of Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda. He takes us on a journey through his creations and reflections, which are at the forefront of anti-colonial thinking, urging us to consider how generations that grew up during or in the aftermath of the war reinterpret this event.
