HANAMI

By Denise FERNANDES

ALINA FILM - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2024

On a remote volcanic island that everybody wants to leave, little Nana learns thow to stay.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno Film Festival 2024
Cineasti del Presente
BFI London FF 2024
Official Competition - First Feature
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, CAPE VERDE, PORTUGAL
    • Languages
    • PORTUGUESE, FRENCH, ENGLISH, JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Denise FERNANDES
    • Writer(s)
    • Denise FERNANDES, Telmo CHURRO
    • Producer(s)
    • David EPINEY (ALINA FILM), Eugenia MUMENTHALER (ALINA FILM), Luís URBANO (O SOM E A FURIA), Sandro AGUILAR (O SOM E A FURIA)
    • Synopsis
    • On a remote volcanic island from which everyone wants to leave, Nana learns to stay. Her mother Nia, who suffers from a mysterious illness, left shortly after her birth. When Nana comes down with a high fever, she is sent to the foot of a volcano for treatment. There, she encounters a world suspended between dreams and reality.
      Years later, when Nana is a teenager, Nia returns.