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CANNES FESTIVAL, civil war and confusion in ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE

Out of competition
Miroslaw Haniszewski, Vergil J. Smith and Tomasz Zietek
Co-directed by Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nenow

The word “the confusão” gets repeated often by the various protagonists in “Another Day of Life.” It describes the terrible chaos, the absolute disorientation that Angola experienced in the early seventies because of an armed conflict. The country’s slide towards civil war, right after it was handed its independence after five centuries of Portuguese domination, would last twenty-seven years and ... more >