HANAMI

By Denise FERNANDES

MORETHAN FILMS - as SALES

Drama - Completed 2024


Festivals
& Awards

Locarno Film Festival 2024
Cineasti del Presente Best Emerging Director Award, First Feature Awards – Special Mention
Red Sea IFF 2024
Official Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, CAPE VERDE, PORTUGAL
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Denise FERNANDES
    • Writer(s)
    • Denise FERNANDES, Telmo CHURRO
    • Producer(s)
    • Luis URBANO (O SOM E A FURIA), Eugenia MUMENTHALER (ALINA FILM), Sandro AGUILAR (O SOM E A FURIA), David EPINEY (ALINA FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • On a remote volcanic island – a place everyone wants to leave – Nana has learned to stay.
      Her mother Nia, who suffers from a mysterious illness, left soon 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.