Hanami | |
Director: | Denise Fernandes |
Screenplay: | Denise Fernandes Telmo Churro |
Producer: | Eugenia Mumenthaler David Epiney Luís Urbano Sandro Aguilar |
Starring: | Dailma Mendes Sanaya Andrade Alice da Luz |
Cinematography: | Alana Mejía Gonzalez |
Editing: | Selin Dettwiler |
Music: | Rahel Zimmermann |
Studio: | Alina Film O Som e a Fúria Ventura Film |
Runtime: | 96 minutes |
Country: | Switzerland Portugal Cape Verde |
Language: | Cape Verdean Creole Japanese French English |
Hanami is a drama film, directed by Denise Fernandes and released in 2024.[1] A coproduction of companies from Switzerland, Portugal and Cape Verde, the film centres on the coming-of-age of Nana (Dailma Mendes in childhood, Sanaya Andrade in adolescence), a young girl who was left behind in Cape Verde when her mother Nia (Alice da Luz) left for a better life in another country, centring on both her childhood in a community of women who take care of her needs and her reunion with her mother as a teenager.[2]
The film premiered in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.[1] It was subsequently screened in the Vanguard competition at the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention for the Vanguard Award.[3]
It is also slated to screen in the First Feature competition at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival.[4]